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Guide to the Gilbert G. Gonzalez Interviews
MS.R.144
MS.R.144
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Title: Gilbert G. Gonzalez interviews
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.144
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Physical Description:
2.6 linear feet
(7 boxes)
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1975-1990
Date (inclusive): 1975-2004
Abstract: This collection contains sixty-three audio tapes of interviews by Gilbert G. Gonzalez with individuals associated with the
citrus industry in Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. These interviews were conducted for Gonzalez's
monograph,
Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1994).
Creator:
Gonzalez, Gilbert G., 1941-
This collection is open for research.
Contents have been reformatted and have digital preservation copies. Access to original audio tapes is restricted; researchers
may request listening copies. The copies may only be used in the UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives Reading
Room and may not be duplicated.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. Due to privacy and copyright concerns, these materials may not be duplicated or published.
The recordings were reformatted and copied onto compact discs (CDs) in 2011 for preservation and access purposes.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection contains sixty-three audio tapes of interviews by Gilbert G. Gonzalez with individuals associated with the
citrus industry in Orange County in the first half of the twentieth century. These interviews were conducted for Gonzalez's
monograph,
Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 (Urbana: Illinois University Press, 1994). The collection includes an interview with Felicitas Mendez, one of
the parents involved in the United States federal court case Mendez v. Westminster School District, which challenged racial
segregation in Orange County, California schools.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes -- 20th century.
Citrus fruit industry -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
Mexican American agricultural laborers -- California -- Orange County -- History -- Sources
Mexican American agricultural laborers -- California -- Orange County -- Interviews
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- Orange County -- Interviews
Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- Orange County -- Interviews