Historias Unknown

Placita Olvera is a historic street in Los Angeles, vital to California history but with some dark moments in its past. In February 26, 1931, La Placita was full with almost 400 people when immigration agents sealed off exits, arrested and deported many, including Mexican-American citizens. On today's episode, Cristina tells Carmen about La Placita Olvera. They also discuss the Golondrina Cafe and how the owners are facing eviction.

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Sources
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-25-me-30223-story.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olvera_Street
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/born-razed/la-placita-church https://lamag.com/dining/olvera-street-la-golondrina-faces-permanent-closure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Sterling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81vila_Adobe
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/la-placita-raid/

Books mentioned:

Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (Revised) Raymond Rodríguez (Author)  Francisco E Balderrama

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Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropologist whose research brought to light the atrocities committed by the Guatemalan government against the Maya. She also fought for better treatment for the Maya; unfortunately, she was assassinated by the government for speaking out, and her family fought a decades long battle for justice.

On today's episode, Carmen tells Cristina the story of Myrna Mack Chang.
 
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Sources
https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/soc189kspring21group2/part/ten-years-of-spring-citizen-participation-in-guatemalas-land-reform-law/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/murder-myrna-mack/
https://aaww.org/myrna-mack-chang-chinese-guatemalan-human-rights-defender/ https://www.democracynow.org/2003/9/11/sept_11_1990_u_s_backed https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=
https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1417&context=hrbrief https://againstthecurrent.org/atc103/p631/ 

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The roots of Guatemala’s civil war can be tied back to June 27, 1954, when the CIA orchestrated a coup against president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman to protect the profits of the infamous United Fruit Company. Over the next 40 years, a civil war ensued in which over 200,000 people lost their lives and atrocities were committed against the Maya.

On today's episode, Carmen gives Cristina a brief history on the Guatemalan civil war, so that next episode, she can share the story of Myrna Mack Chang.

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Sources
​​https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/murder-myrna-mack/ 
https://aaww.org/myrna-mack-chang-chinese-guatemalan-human-rights-defender/ https://www.democracynow.org/2003/9/11/sept_11_1990_u_s_backed  https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=
https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1417&context=hrbrief  https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jacobo-arbenz-guzman-deposed/ 
https://hrdag.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/CEHreport-english.pdf 

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On January 28, 1917, seventeen year old Carmelita Torres refused to exit the trolley on the Santa Fe Bridge and follow US health officials to a chemical bath. 30 women followed after her. Soon, that 30 became hundreds and then thousands. This would be called "the Bath Riots" and it lasted 2 days. Newspapers referred to the women as Amazons and called Carmelita Torres the red haired amazon. Not much is known about her, but she inspired thousands.

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Sources

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bath-riots
Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez: 1893-1923 by David Dorado Romo. 2005. 
https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2022/from-bath-riots-to-blocking-asylum-public-health-and-race-at-the-us-mexico-border https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/el-paso-bath-house-riots-1917

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On July 24, 1973, twelve year old Santos Rodriguez was brutally murdered by Dallas Police Officer Darell Cain, but the murder pushed the Mexican American community of Dallas to demand justice.  On today's episode, Carmen tells Cristina about the violent and tragic murder of Santos and how the Mexican American community came together in the aftermath.

TW: murder of a child, police violence, mention of suicide

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Sources  
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/santos-rodriguez/ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/24/205121429/How-The-Death-Of-A-12-Year-Old-Changed-The-City-Of-Dallas 
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2013/07/22/40-years-after-santos-rodriguezs-murder-scars-remain-for-family-neighbors-and-dallas/ 
https://flashbackdallas.com/2018/07/28/santos-rodriguez-the-march-of-justice-1973/  https://flashbackdallas.com/2018/07/24/santos-rodriguez1960-1973/  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nv2WzKtYFX4f1fLfuX_3IoBKo-t_QB5q/view  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHG6z8cEMS_GxE88bL3fR5IuLUp1NB2U/view  https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/48-years-after-his-murder-santos-rodriguezs-mother-gets-an-apology-from-dallas-police/287-131a3387-6ed7-4031-a1f9-d0d40ecd6f49  https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/santos-rodriguez-statue-unveiling-dallas-police-darrell-cain/287-1791a5c8-4007-4a03-b0bc-b96f9e209b43  https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2023/07/santos-rodriguez-was-killed-50-years-ago-dallas-remembers-him-as-beautiful-innocent-and-free/  https://issuu.com/ghevergreen/docs/february_2017_6a077638dfa1d9

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During opening weekend, Oppenheimer, raked in$80.5 million, second to Barbie. While the film Oppenheimer is about physicist Robert Oppenheimer and his efforts to create the atomic bomb, what many movie goes do not know, is that this "near-desolate" land where all this was taking place, was actually not empty. It was home to indigenous people and to several Hispano families. They were displaced for Oppenheimer's labs, then, on July 16th, 1945, these same communities, the downwinders, lives were changed forever.

On today's episode, Cristina tells Carmen about the less known history of the Manhattan project, the Hispano communities displaced by the construction of the labs and the Hispanos, known as downwinders, who were affected after the test bomb was detonated.

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Sources
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/in-the-shadow-of-oppenheimer/ http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2008/07/lab-workers-awarded-12-million-by-sarah.html?m=1 https://www.justice.gov/civil/common/reca https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/oral-histories/rosario-martinez-fiorillos-interview/
https://www.rehumanizeintl.org/post/sacrificed-in-the-name-of-global-power-how-us-nuclear-policy-harmed-native-american-nations#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16900514411331&referrer=
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https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rehumanizeintl.org%2Fpost%2Fsacrificed-in-the-name-of-global-power-how-us-nuclear-policy-harmed-native-american-nations https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/hispanos-los-alamos/ https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/civilian-displacement-los-alamos-nm/ https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/native-americans-and-manhattan-project/ 

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Luisa Moreno was Guatemalan labor movement activist, she unionized workers, led strikes, and brought together first national Latino civil rights assembly in 1939. She paved the road for future labor movements like the United Farm Workers, yet her name is not as well known.

On today's episode, Cristina tells Carmen about Luisa Moreno

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Sources
https://sandiegohistory.org/journal/1995/october/moreno/ https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/national-museum-american-history-looks-latino-labor-rights https://americacomesalive.com/luisa-moreno-1907-1992-labor-organizer/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/guatemalan-immigrant-luisa-moreno-expelled-us-groundbreaking-labor-activism-180969750/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Moreno
https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise/new-perspectives/luisa-moreno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_a_Texas_Moon 

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Pedro Zamora gained notoriety as a cast member in season four of the Real World. As a Real World cast member, Pedro touched many lives and humanized AIDS/HIV. Prior to the Real World, Pedro was an AIDS educator and he even testified before congress advocating for better HIV/AIDS educational programs.

On today's episode, Carmen tells Cristina about Pedro Zamora..

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Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Zamora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift https://www.hrc.org/news/hrc-honors-five-latinx-lgbtq-historical-figures-for-latinx-heritage-month https://www.aidsmemorial.org/post/pedro-zamora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_(film)
http://www.therainbowtimesmass.com/positive-thoughts-passing-the-torch-pedro-zamoras-impact/ 

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Did you know, the first openly gay candidate to run for a public office in the United States was a Latino man and a drag queen? Jose Sarria was an instrumental activist to the LGBTQ+ community, he was a veteran, a drag queen and an empress.

On today's episode, Cristina tells Carmen about the historic and iconic, Jose Sarria

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Sources

https://sfbaytimes.com/jose-sarria-the-drag-queen-who-changed-san-francisco/
https://latina.com/the-empress-is-a-man-the-drag-royalty-of-jose-julio-sarria/#amp_ct=1686458693576&_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16864586406550&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=
https%3A%2F%2Flatina.com%2Fthe-empress-is-a-man-the-drag-royalty-of-jose-julio-sarria%2F https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/jose-sarria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Sarria 

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Jessie Lopez De La Cruz was a Mexican America Farm worker and activist. She was the first women to work as a recruiter for the United Farm Workers and she was responsible for the signing up the highest amount of new members. She also worked at the first UFW hiring hall, which was located at her house in Parlier, CA. She joined every strike and protest she could, she was a community organizer and she also taught English to farm workers.

On today's episode, Cristina tells Carmen about this historic and iconic leader.

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Sources

Jessie De La Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker by Gary Soto https://aflcio.org/2020/3/25/womens-history-month-profiles-jessie-lopez-de-la-cruz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Lopez_De_La_Cruz 

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