Because after the q a well be giving away what the friends of the library love to give away more than anything else and thats some books to some lucky winners so please join us at this point in welcoming from the National Archives at riverside. Randy thompson and james artoon. \[applause] hi, im going to introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. Ill be here for questions and answer. Just a little background about myself. I volunteered after i got my b. A. In history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the National Archives at riverside and then in 2012 i became a student archives technician at the National Archives at riverside and then i got my masters degree in library and Information Science at that same time from san jose state university. And then in 2014, i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Louis as a preservation technician and then in 2016 i moved back to california and then in my current role as an a
Out raffle tickets because we will be giving out friends of looksbrary and that means to lucky winners. Please join me at this time welcoming Brandi Thompson and james [applause] hi. Will introduce myself. Randy will be giving most of the presentation. I will be here for questions and answers. Just a little background. I volunteered after i got my ba in history from cal state San Bernardino in 2010, i began volunteering at the national riverside and in 2012i became a student archives in i gotnd then my masters degree in library and Information Science at the same time from san jose state , and then in 2014 i moved to st. Louis and worked at the National Archives at st. Preservation technician and then in 2016i moved back to california and in role as arc of specialist. So, i will turn it over to randy and he can give you his bio. Dy all right. Thank you, james. Welcome, everybody i want to thank mr. Karzais wonderful introduction. I want to thank the friends of the North Hollywood libra
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Signs that said we dont surf mexicans or dogs, that was very prevalent throughout texas. My book focuses on postworld war ii events. It focuses on postworld war ii because that was a generation of men and women who were able to challenge some of those segregationist institutions we had in texas. After world war ii, the mexicanamerican men and women who went into the military got a new mindset. They had been wearing the military uniform all of a sudden a much greater numbers than before world war i. When they were wearing their uniforms in europe or in the pacific theater, they found that they were treated like americans. It is one of my favorite stories. We have a man whose family had been one of the original spanish land grantees in the Corpus Christi area. When we interviewed him he brought the land grant papers with him because he wanted to show during world war ii he was in the military and he was standing on the tarmac at an airfield in texas. It is cold and there is wind whipping
About 20 three campuses have backward culture. Chico represents the northern part of the state, but we draw students from all over california to get experience in agriculture. Region started the gold rush, the 1850s. The first people here after native americans were those who had land grants or prospectors. My family has been in this my kids will be six generation involved in agriculture in this area. Historically it was prederogation. A sickly what you could go grow with natural rainfall, sheep, cattle, gold and timber. Thats what chico was founded on. The spanish land grants, john bidwells area, started to grow into more diversity, particularly the sheep business became strong. Probably the biggest change we saw is when we created irrigation systems. That was in the early 1900s, we started to see more control of both the flood for your edition and agriculture. ,e saw a shift when race came this was one of the first that changed the agricultural economy at that point. After we move th