Duvan Lujan, 1973

File — Box: 5, item: 137-138

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Biographical background, origin (Velencia, New Mexico 1919), education, bootlegging by father, selling papers and collecting pop bottles, first talking movies, life as migrant workers, education of migrants, discrimination experiences, going into business for himself as an auto mechanic, strikebreakers, politics, school segregation, GI Forum, Spanish-speaking teachers, Chicano movement, Chicano activists. Interviewed by Greg Coronado in Genaro Court, New Mexico. 31 pages.

Housing problems, Albquerque 1968, Veteran's Hospital, GI Forum, VOP, Gus Garcia, Attorney, Chicano college dropouts, equal employment, what brought G. Forum to New Mexico, discrimination, Chicano, Enidad, survival of GI Forum. Interviewed by Greg Coronado in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 25 pages.

Dates

1973

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