Gilbert G. Gonzalez interviews, 1975 - 2004 1975 - 1990.

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Gilbert G. Gonzalez interviews, 1975 - 2004 1975 - 1990.

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This collection contains sixty-three audio tapes of interviews by Gilbert G. Gonzales with individuals associated with the citrus industry in Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. These interviews were conducted for Gonzalez's monograph, Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Urbana: Illinois UP, 1994). The collection includes an interview with Felicitas Mendez, one of the parents involved in the United States federal court case Mendez v. Westminster School District, which challenged racial segregation in Orange County, California schools.

2.6 linear feet (7 boxes)

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 8143810

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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González, Gilbert G. 1941-...

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Dr. Gilbert G. Gonzalez (Professor Emeritus and Historian at the University of California-Irvine, Chicano/Latino Studies) was one of eight children born to Mexican immigrant parents. Raised and educated in southern California, Dr. Gonzalez received his Ph.D. in United States history from UCLA in 1974. In 1971, Gonzalez was affiliated with the Program in Comparative Culture at the University of California-Irvine, where he established his interests in ethnic studies, U.S.-Mexico agric...