Project recovers history of Mexicans in Chicago
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A community history project in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood seeks to recover and preserve the struggles and activism of Mexican Americans there in the 1960s and 1980s, writes the EFE news agency.
Titled ‘Towards an Oral History of the Civil Rights Struggle in Mexican Pilsen,’ the project and resulting book are efforts of the Casa Aztlán community organization and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC.
‘The new generations of Latinos don’t know what the history of their communities is. That was what motivated us to create the project,’ said UIC sociologist Maria Eugenia de la Torre, who is in charge of the project.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City