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OH1874-V
Date
2013
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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.
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Call Number
OH1883-V
Date
2013
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Cleo Estrada, a counselor in the multicultural section of Student Services at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was born in 1951 in Center, Colo., in the San Luis Valley. Cleo started working in the fields at age 5-6 with her siblings. She describes how hard the work was and also talks about the use of the Spanish language and traditions in the San Luis Valley. She describes poor housing for Latinos and segregation in Center. She also talks about what motivated her to acquire a college education and how she came to CU-Boulder in 1969 through the Migrant Action Program that recruited and supported Latino students with migrant farming backgrounds, receiving her undergraduate degree in 1973 and her Master's in counseling in 1974. She describes her involvement with UMAS (United Mexican American Students) and Chicano activists on campus. She gives historical background about the Chicano movement, describes special progams for Hispanic students, and lays out the issues the student activists were concerned about and why during the decades of the 1950s to the 1970s. She talks about what had changed on campus since then.