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Festival de Mujeres 1979 Program
4 pg. program with location, list of participating organizations, entertainment schedule, and Festival map. -
Salima Rivera
This screenprint by Nicole Marroquín pays homage to Chicago-based, Puerto Rican poet Salima Rivera (1946-2004). It features text from Rivera’s poem, “Pilsen,” written in 1978. This was produced for the print festival Grabadolandia for a portfolio organized by Instituto Grafico de Chicago with Marimacha Monarca Press in 2019. The theme of the portfolio exchange was This Bridge Called My Back. This drawing of Rivera is based on one of Diana Solís' photographs. Two color screenprint, 11x15. -
Derechos Obreros Boletín Informativo Al Servicio De La Comunidad, v. 1, no. 4, Chicago, IL, September 1979, page 1.
P. 1 of Spanish language bulletin (V. 1 No. 4) of La Asociación Pro-Derechos Obreros (APO) with article on a demonstration at the Saint Luke's Hospital, charging that they refused to employ Latinos. -
Faculty member Otto Pikaza (center) and students at a University Hall sit-in that helped lead to the founding of the Latin American and Latino studies program
Students: Carlos Heredia (far l., partial view), Rudy Lozano (l. profile leaning in with moustache), Josefina Kramer (r., standing) -
El Valor Center for the Handicapped Advertisement
Advertisement from 1980 Fiesta del Sol event program -
"Lucha de la Comunidad de Pilsen Por Su Biblioteca," El Heraldo, v. II, no. 24, June 11, 1981, page 1.
Spanish language newspaper article with photo about June,1981 protests for a larger, centrally located public library in Pilsen. Organized by El Comité Pro-Biblioteca. -
Si Se Puede, It Can Be Done. Boycott Lettuce and Grapes. Poster, 1978. Copyright Chicago Women's Graphics Collective
Poster printed with yellow, brown, green, and orange ink on white paper. A graphic of an agricultural lettuce field fills the upper two-thirds of the page. The top half of a yellow sun with jagged rays is visible just over the field at upper right in an orange sky. The sun is printed with a United Farm Workers eagle symbol and the text, "Sí Se Puede ~ It Can Be Done" in an arch along the top. Several figures in salmon-colored outfits work among the rows of lettuce throughout the center of the page. A group portrait of men, women, and children in green, white, and salmon-colored outfits fills the bottom third of the page above the text "Boycott Lettuce and Grapes" -
Festival de Mujeres 1979 Poster "In celebration of what we as women have done, are doing and can do!"
Festival de Mujeres Poster. Graphic artist: Mercedes Corona. Based on photographs by Diana Solís. Poster sponsored by Mujeres Latinas en Acción. -
Pilsen residents march outside City Hall
Members of Pilsen community march outside City Hall, protesting lack of Latino firefighters, 21 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois. From Black-and-white negative. -
Sin Fronteras, v. 7, no. 3, Chicago, IL, August-September, 1980, cover.
Newsletter V 7., no., 3. With CASA organizational logo in right top corner, table of contents, and drawing of historic Mexican, Latin American, and Chicago resistance struggles by Pilsen artist Aurelio Díaz.