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Graciela Gil (known commonly as Grace) was born to Damian Valero and Eloisa Solis Valero Gil in Phoenix, Arizona on March 9, 1928. She began working for KIFN (a Spanish language radio station in Phoenix) in 1952, where she served as a bilingual secretary, as a third-class radio engineer, as an announcer, and finally as the Women's Program Director. After leaving KIFN in 1962, Gil worked as a Staff Specialist at the Choate Foundation (1962-1965) and as the Director of the Arizona State Office of Economic Opportunity (1966-1968). She was also involved with volunteer work to help the poor and physically handicapped of Phoenix and considered both radio and television to be a means of informing the impoverished about the health, social, and educational services available to them. She was married briefly in the late 1950s and had one son, Victor Rene (1959-).

Although she had dropped out of Ray High School in 1944 in favor of completing a six-month course at a business school, Olivarez was admitted to the Law School at the University of Notre Dame in 1967. She became the first woman to earn her JD at this institution in 1970. She was also granted a number of honorary degrees, including an Honorary Doctor of Public Administration from the University of Albuquerque (1985), an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Amherst College (1972), and Honorary Doctorates of Law from Michigan State University (1975), the University of Notre Dame (1978), and St. Mary's-of-the-Woods (1980).

After earning her law degree, Olivarez worked as Director of Food For All (1970-1972), as Director of the Institute for Social Research and Development (1972-1975), and as the New Mexico State Planning Officer (1975-1977) before being appointed the Director of the Community Services Administration by President Jimmy Carter. Olivarez left this post in 1980 and returned to Albuquerque, where she founded Olivarez Television Company, Inc. Graciela Gil Olivarez died in Albuquerque on September 19, 1987.

From the guide to the Preliminary Inventory of the Graciela Gil Olivarez Papers, 1949-1988, 1962-1988, (Arizona State University Libraries Chicano Research Collection)

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Oral history interview with Raúl Yzaguirre, 1998 [videorecording].

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Yzaguirre, Raúl, 1939-. Oral history interview with Raúl Yzaguirre, 1998 [videorecording].

Title: Oral history interview with Raúl Yzaguirre, 1998 [videorecording].

Raúl Yzaguirre begins with his personal background and his family's history in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. He notes a family member's involvement with Pancho Villa and recalls his grandfather's ice business, a franchise of the Central Power and Light Company. He recounts his youthful adventures out of Corpus Christi on a fishing crew in the Gulf of Mexico and refers to Dr. Hector P. Garcia as the mentor who led Yzaguirre to organize the junior auxiliary of the American G.I. Forum. He describes the struggle with the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD for early childhood education and elucidates his reasons for the walkout demonstration at Alamo High School in 1957. He notes his success on the high school debate team which resulted in his teacher's dismissal and cites race discrimination as the basis for the dismissal, and comments on his participation in Henry B. Gonzales' gubanatorial campaign in Texas. He speaks at length on his military service and medical training in the United States Air Force near Washington, D.C., and explains his career choice favoring political activism over medicine. He discusses the creation of the National Organization for Mexican American Services (NOMAS), the umbrella organization he formed to unify Mexican American groups, and declares Lyndon B. Johnson's Mexican American summit meeting undermined the organization's chances of success. He exposes Manuel Aragón as a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency infiltrator and agitator in his organization, refers to his work in the War on Poverty as an aide to Sargent Shriver in the Migrant Division of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and touches on the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO). He provides details on the forming of two consulting firms, Interstate Research Associates (IRA) and InterAmerica Research Associates, Inc., and relates their part in empowering the Raza Unida Party. He talks about working with members of the Southwest Council of La Raza, the forerunner of the National Council of La Raza, and starting up lobbying operations with El Congreso (National Congress of Hispanic American Citizens). He explains his selection as head of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) despite the objection of founding chairman Maclovio Barraza and shares the process of convincing Paul N. Ylvisaker to provide financial backing for the NCLR through the Ford Foundation. He mentions Willie Velasquez's role in instituting the Mexican American Unity Council and the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project and speaks at length about the formative years of the National Council of La Raza. He delves into his work with Mexico's Fundación Solidaridad Mexicano-Americana (Mexican-American Solidarity Foundation) which was established in 1994, and Mexico's then Secretary of Education Ernesto Zedillo (who was president of Mexico at the time of the interview) and addresses American foreign policy in Mexico. He refers to Mexican American politicians Polly Baca (Baca-Baragán), Graciela Olivarez, U.S. Senator Joe (Joseph Manuel) Montoya of New Mexico, and New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and states his own opinions on race relations between Hispanic Americans and African Americans.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette (VHS) : col. ; 1/2 in.Transcript : 62 p. ; 28 cm.

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Preliminary Inventory of the Graciela Gil Olivarez Papers, 1949-1988, 1962-1988

Title: Preliminary Inventory of the Graciela Gil Olivarez Papers 1949-1988 1962-1988

This collection houses speeches, awards, memorabilia, newspaper articles, university degrees, scrapbooks, photographs, and slides documenting Graciela Gil Olivarez's work with the Community Services Administration and the New Mexico State Planning Office as well as her activism on behalf of the Mexican American community and specifically Mexican American women. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Archives and Special Collections for more information.

ArchivalResource: 11 Boxes; (10.75 Linear Feet)

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Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1968 -1983

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Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1968 -1983

Title: Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1968 -1983

Administrative records, litigation files, and special program files.

ArchivalResource: 1,200 linear ft.

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Women in New Mexico Collection

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Women in New Mexico Collection

Title: Women in New Mexico Collection

In 1976 the Albuquerque chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) held an exhibit at The Albuquerque Museum to honor the contributions of women to the history, culture, and politics of New Mexico. The materials gathered by members of the AAUW in Albuquerque to determine which of the over one hundred women nominated were to be included in the exhibit form the core of this collection. The collection contains correspondence, forms, audio CDs, clippings, and published articles on the women nominated by AAUW members, including explanations of why they were nominated and biographical information on the nominees. All of the women were 19th and 20th century women who were not all New Mexico natives, but who lived here and contributed to the artistic, political, and educational life of the state. Ultimately, thirteen women were chosen for the exhibit. Biographical information, clippings, and recorded interviews with those women comprise folders 5-22. Folders 25-82 contain biographical information and clippings about fifty-six women who were nominated, but not included in the exhibit. The biographical folders are arranged in alphabetical order. Newspaper clippings and publicity for the 1976 exhibit are also included in the collection. The last folder in the collection has brief information about eighty women nominated by the New Mexico Women's Political Caucus as women of note in the 1980s. Other biographical materials on New Mexico women may be added to this collection in the future.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1 cu. ft.)

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