Mexican Americans Speak Up in Pollak Library’s Special Collection April 29, 2021 Share This:
This illustration from the California Librarian, the January 1973 special issue on Chicano Library Service, is by Jorge Enciso s Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico, Dover Publications, 1953.
Daisy Gomez-Fuentes listened in awe to an audio-visual recording of Chicano activist Rudy Acuña speaking to a group of Cal State Fullerton students in May 1974. The lecture gave her insights into the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
“He spoke about the cultural conflicts that Chicanx students faced in academia,” said Gomez-Fuentes, a Chicana and Chicano studies major and daughter of Mexican immigrants.