Category Archive: Archives Alive!

An Opera Singers Dream …..

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Simon Estes Powerpoint Video An Opera Singers Dream ….. This article was created to inform reader’s racism towards African Americans didn’t discourage their dreams and aspirations. In a time period in which being… Continue reading

Archives Alive Final Project

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John Terronez Pictures and Biographical files.(1)

Civil Rights Activist or Communist? The Edna Griffin Story (Final draft)

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Final Video Civil Rights Activist or Communist During the 1960’s African Americans were being discriminated against because of the color of their skin. This is the time when the Civil Rights movement begins.… Continue reading

Final Leno and María Rhetorical Analysis

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The documents of Leno and María: A Success Story, is the memoir of Vincent P. Cano and the memorial scrapbook of María Cano Martínez, his older sister. The document that I chose to transcribe is… Continue reading

LULAC: From School Children to Table Grapes FINAL

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DIY  History Artifact Screencast LULAC Visual Aid Rhetorical Analysis: Civil rights, a problem everyone knows to be prevalent in the 1960s, doesn’t usually involve Mexican Americans in the US when people think about… Continue reading

Final-Discriminationa and Davenport Mexicans

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Brandon Van Winkle Rhetoric Archives Alive! Discrimination and Davenport Mexicans In the early 1900’s when many Americans went off to WWI to fight the war, the Bettendorf Foundry recruited many Mexicans to come… Continue reading

Archives Alive Presentation

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Archives Alive Speech

FINAL I Scream for Rights

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The civil rights movement in the US occurred in the 1950s to 1960s. However, before that time period, a later renowned civil rights activist from Iowa was hailed as the Rosa Parks of… Continue reading

The Push For Mexican-American Education Final

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Spencer Holub RHET: 1030:0029 Anna Williams September 30th, 2015 The Push For Mexican-American Education             The League of United Latin American Citizens document I found on University of Iowa DIY History Library, is… Continue reading

Mending the Midwest Final

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Mending the Midwest During the Civil Rights Movement there was a large amount of discrimination in the workplace, such as education and government jobs, and in buying and renting homes. Many of those… Continue reading