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Emma Gomez Martinez clippings.
Emma Gomez Martinez clippings.
Call Number
VF People (Martinez, Emma Gomez)
Date
after 2013
Contents
1 vertical file.
Description
One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on Emma Gomez Martinez.
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Emma Gomez Martinez photographs.
Emma Gomez Martinez photographs.
Call Number
620-1-11
Date
1939-2013
Contents
8 photographs (2 digitized).
Description
Photographs of Emma Gomez Martinez and family and Emma Gomez Martinez Park.
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Oral history interview with Emma Gomez Martinez, 2013
Oral history interview with Emma Gomez Martinez, 2013
Call Number
OH1893-V
Date
2013
Description
Emma Gomez Martinez has been a spokesperson and advocate for the Hispanic community in Boulder since the 1950s. She was born in Aguilar, Colorado in 1928. Her father had come from Mexico in the 1920s; her mother's family was from Northern New Mexico (one grandmother was a Comanche Indian). Her parents moved to Erie, Colorado, in 1929; her father worked in the coal mines in the winter and did field work in the summer. She talks about discrimination against Latinos in the schools and witnessing the deportations of Mexicans in the 1930s. She comments on the effect that discrimination had on Latinos. She describes lack of employment and housing for Latinos in Boulder in mid-twentieth century Boulder. She talks about the history of her work with OEO (Office of Economic Opportunity) in Boulder in the 1960s and 1970s. She comments on positive relationships among Latinos and blacks in that neighborhood. She talks about the re-naming of Canyon Park in her honor in 2013.
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Oral history interview with Euvaldo Valdez, 2013
Oral history interview with Euvaldo Valdez, 2013
Call Number
OH1856-V
Date
2013
Description
Euvaldo Valdez discusses his family's roots in Abo, New Mexico, on a "merced" land grant, his life growing up in Abo and Albuquerque, and how he came to live in Boulder in 1969. He talks about his employment as director of community information and services for the Boulder Valley Public School District and his position as one of only a few Hispanics working in the school administration at the time. He discusses steps he took to make the Boulder Valley School District more welcoming to minority families and descibes his levels of acceptance by the Latino and Anglo communities in Boulder in 1969. Throughout the interview Euvaldo emphasizes the fact that one must "give before they ask", always help people, and recognize the help one gets from others, beliefs inspired by his mother. One person he is currently leading efforts to recognize is Emma Gomez Martinez, a leader in Boulder's Hispanic community. He asserts that one issue Boulder must focus on is balance, particularly on achieving the balance of social goals with political and environmental goals. He ends by emphasizing the need to educate HIspanic youth to help them reach their goals.
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