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This folder contains newspaper clippings about minorities, racism, discrimination, and human rights efforts in Boulder County. The clippings were compiled by the Reference Staff at the Boulder Public Library.

This folder contains newspaper clippings about minorities, racism, discrimination, and human rights efforts in Boulder County. The clippings were compiled by the Reference Staff at the Boulder Public Library.

Gregory Jaramillo attended Colorado State University and received his license to practice medicine from the University of Colorado, Denver. He has been director of the Salud Family Health Center in Longmont, Colorado. He discusses the importance of community health centers, work he has done with organizations such as the YMCA and subsidized housing programs to help people access better education and lifestyles, and his general philosophy of life. He talks about positive changes brought about by Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) and electronic medical records.

Jason Romero was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. He attended Pueblo Community College while in high school, graduating with an associate's degree in 2010. He then went to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he graduated in 2013, summa cum laude. At the time of this interview he was about to start a graduate program in educaton. In his interview he discussses his educational experiences, "low rider" vehicles as a cultural phenomenon, the development of his identity as a Chicano, the importance of Latino student organizations while he was at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and harassment by the police based on his ethnic identity.

Salvador was born in Guanajuerta, Mexico in 1996. When he was 4 years old he came to Colorado with his parents and brother to join his grandma, who was already in the U.S. His parents said they came for their children: a better education, more opportunity, a better life. His father has worked in a series of unskilled jobs; his mother works in a tortillaria. Salvador went to Columbine Elementary School, Trail Ridge Middle School, and had just finished his junior year at Skyline High School, all in Longmont. His teachers treated him well, but he was aware of discrimination elsewhere. He hopes to go to college and become an architect.

Augustine Cordova is retired as a software programmer/engineer at IBM and is also a musician. His family, on both sides, is from New Mexico, but his parents moved to the San Luis Valley in Colorado, where he grew up. He describes the sense of community there, and his respect for his father, who was ready to help anyone. Augustine attended the Univesity of Colorado at Boulder in the 1970s. Among the student movements in which he took part were the Coors boycott, the grape boycott, and the Safeway boycott. He talks about his participation in street theater and musical groups to publicize Chicano issues and describes a song he wrote while a student called "Yo Soy Chicano". Later he describes what happened with the bombing of "Los Seis de Boulder". He recites a song that he wrote about Los Seis de Boulder. He discusses the positive strides made by Latino students who attended CU in the 1970s, Latino presence and culture in Boulder County, the long-term contributions of the Chicano movement of the 1970s, and encourages the younger generation to "pick up the baton" of cementing and continuing gains made by his generation.

Marta Moreno is the Executive Director of El Comit{u1EBB}, a non-profit organization that focuses on helping underserved people in Longmont, primarily Latinos, solve legal problems, achieve citizenship, recoup wages, and overcome unfair treatment among other services. She talks about growing up in El Paso, Texas, the influence of nuns and priests had in her life, and her educational experiences there. She moved to Boulder in the mid-1970s when her husband was hired as a mechanical engineer for IBM. She talks about leading a movement to have the Catholic churches here offer Spanish Mass. Later she moved to Longmont. She describes discrimination against Latinos in El Paso and in Boulder County. She ends by explaining the history of El Comit{u1EBB}, and describes many of the ways in which it helps the community.

Heriberto (Beto) Moreno, an engineer with IBM and one of the founders of El Comite in Longmont, talks about his roots in Mexico, growing up in El Paso, Texas, how he gained an education, and how the Latino community in Longmont took shape during the 1970s.

Emmanuel Melgoza was born in Mexico and moved to Colorado when he was in 3rd grade. After attending elementary and middle school in the Denver area, he was part of an International Baccalaureate program in high school. At the time of this interview he had finished his second year at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was majoring in political science and ethnic studies, with a minor in technology, arts and media. He discusses the struggles he had in school as he learned to speak English, but he also speaks about his determination and successes, which he attributes in part to the way his family stressed the value of obtaining an education. He describes the experience of adjusting to life at the university and in Boulder, noting that participation in student organizations and student government had opened doors for him. He also reflects on being a Latino in Boulder County, some of the prejudice that non-Latinos bring to interactions with Latinos, and stresses the need for hard work and achievement to overcome those stereotypes.

Doris Gonzales describes the hard times she and her family experienced growing up during The Depression after her father could not return from a visit to Mexico and her mother contracted tuberculosis. She lived with an aunt and uncle in Boulder at 601 Alpine St., while her mother recovered in the sanitarium. She describes doing farm work, her education, and her love of athletics. She talks about jobs that she held and also gives examples of discrimination that she experienced, such as having students throw stones at her on her way to school in Lafayette, and trying to eat at a restaurant in Longmont with a "White Trade Only" sign.

Carmen Ramirez, born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1960, is the program coordinator for the Community Relations Division of the City of Longmont. She also has been the head of the Latino Task Force of Boulder County and an active committee member of the Boulder County Latino History Project. She speaks about her early childhood with her grandparents and aunt in El Paso, and about her difficult teen years, when she lived on the streets. She started college but dropped out after marrying and having a child whom she had to support. Later she married Ray Ramirez and moved to Longmont. She talks about the importance of family and education in her life, her current job as a cultural interpreter and mediator, and her participation in the Next Generation Leadership Program, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. She describes forms of racism and ethnic discrimination experienced in Texas and Colorado and speaks warmly of the support given to her by her husband.

Harold Dominguez, the city manager of Longmont, was born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1972 and grew up in the nearby town of Sundown. He talks about his upbringing and the people iln his family who were mentors for him. After graduating from Texas Tech University, he earned a master's in public administration. He describes early jobs in Lubbock and San Angelo, and then goes on to talk about becoming Longmont's city manager. He describes his family and their mutual support for each other; his greatest challenge so far as city manager, which was the major flood in September, 2013; and his philosophy of public administration, which involves being in responsive partnership with the citizens of Longmont.

Elvira Ramos is Director of Programs at The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County. She talks about her experience of growing up in Indiana and her roots in Brownsville, Texas. Her ancestors have lived in the Rio Grande Valley for many generations, and both of her parents were born in Brownsville, Texas. After World War II, her parents moved to Indiana, where her father worked in the steel mills. Her mother graduated from high school, but was not allowed to go to college. Her parents were active in the Democratic Party and in helping new Latino immigrants in the area. Although both of her parents spoke Spanish, Elvira was not taught the language because her parents had been punished and held back in school for speaking Spanish. Elvira received her bachelor's degree in English at Indiana University in Bloomington. She worked in Denver and Brownsville before moving with her son to Boulder County in 2009. She talks about racism in Colorado, which she finds to be more pervasive than in Texas. She also discusses her work at The Community Foundation, where she manages grants that are used to encourage and promote philanthropy. She trains and facilitates workshops on leadership development, diversity, cultural competency, volunteer management and strategic planning. She offers career advice for young people.