MONDAY, JULY 26
PROGRAM # 9328 12:00 PM PDT
Betita Martínez: A Tribute.
In this interview aired on March 8, 2006, in coincidence with International Women’s Day, legendary Chicana activist Betita Martínez talks about her then-yet-to-be-published book “500 Years of Chicana Women’s History,” a photo collection and narrative about “extraordinary but forgotten” women in history. She also shares memories growing up in segregated Washington DC in the years of the Great Depression, her research on colonialism while working for an incipient United Nations Organization. Betita died a month ago in San Francisco at 95.
Guest: Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez, Writer, Social and Feminist Activist, Chicano Movement Icon, San Francisco, CA.
Protecting Latino Heritage Sites. Friendship Park, a space at the US-Mexico border near San Diego where families can meet with relatives across the metal fence; Santa Ana’s Chepa’s Park in the oldest Mexican American barrio in California, which was originally created to stop a proposed freeway offramp from bulldozing the neighborhood, and El Duranguito, the oldest neighborhood in El Paso, threatened by gentrification; and Boyle Heights’ Hazard Park, a gathering green space for Latino students during the East Los Angeles Blowouts in 1968, are all sites of high importance in Latino culture and US history, but poorly recognized and protected. A new study, “Place, Story and Culture,” addresses the lack of representation of Latino heritage sites and the need to protect them by listing them in the National Register of Historic Sites.
Guest: Jessica Godínez, Conservation Programs Associate, Hispanic Access Foundation, Richmond, VA
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