Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Jesus and Ramona Mendez

Titles: Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Jesus and Ramona Mendez (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Jesus Mendez was born in Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, on Aug. 4, 1910 and immigrated to East Grand Forks, Minn., in 1927 on contract with a sugar company. Ramona Mendez was born in Texas and moved to Minnesota in 1942. They married in 1943 and had ten children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family history; education of their children, including discouraging children from working in the fields; Mexican customs; and Jesus Mendez's employment with the Migrant Education Program in Crookston at the time of the interview. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: In Spanish.

Dates

• 07/16/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Mendez, Jesus A.
• interviewee: Mendez, Mrs. Ramona
• interviewer: Saucedo, Ramedo J.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 49
• Accession Number: AV1996.92.44

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Mexican-American Oral History Project' <OH 49>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 5 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:18:52 running time

Subjects

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