MANA de Kansas City Collection

Barbara Muro, a Mexican American woman, reads from a tab in her right hand as she holds a red and green woven basket with her left hand as she stands at a podium. Bea Marie Mejia, also a Mexican...

Two Mexican American women, Bea Marie Mejia and Stacey Alvarez, exchange a wrapped gift as they smile at the camera at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The seated audience is visible behind...

Bea Marie Mejia, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone attached to a lectern at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City community service awards dinner. The front of the lectern reads, "The...

Bea Marie Mejia, a Mexican American woman, closes her eyes as she speaks into a microphone attached to a lectern at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City community service awards dinner. The front of...

Bea Marie Mejia, a Mexican American woman, bends to speak with a seated Mexican American boy who is holding a book with a guitar on the front (and is also seated on a stack of those books), as he...

Four Mexican American women, Bea Marie Mejia, Freda Mendez-Smith, Rachel Estada, and Estella Morales stand together at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. A banner hangs behind them...

Three Mexican American women, Bea Rodriguez, Helen Cortezzios, and Mary Lou Jaramillo, assemble materials at long tables during Fiesta Hispana. Most likely this was held at the Westport Allen Center...

Mexican American men, women, and children make their way through the buffet line at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The table has lit candles for decoration. The man farthest to the left is...

Carmen Tafolla, a Mexican American female author, from her right side, sits at a table signing posters at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Six audience members stand on the other side of the...

Carmen Tafolla, a Mexican American female author, from her back right side, sits at a table signing posters at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Four audience members stand on the other side...

Carmen Tafolla stands arm-in-arm between an African American man and a Mexican American woman, Mary Lou Jaramillo, as they smile at the camera and stand in front of blue drapes at an unidentified MANA...

Carmen Tafolla stands arm-in-arm between an African American man and a Mexican American woman, Mary Lou Jaramillo, as they smile at the camera and stand in front of blue drapes at an unidentified MANA...

An African American man, a Mexican American man, Carmen Tafolla, and a Mexican American woman, Mary Lou Jaramillo, stand together arm-in-arm and smile at the camera as they stand in front of blue...

An African American man, a Mexican American man, Carmen Tafolla, and a Mexican American woman, Mary Lou Jaramillo, stand together arm-in-arm and smile at the camera as they stand in front of blue...

Clara Reyes, Pauline Risa, and another woman stand together and talk as they eat their food during a Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees.

A Mexican American couple sit eating at a table at Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, a restaurant at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri as a Mexican American waitress and a Mexican American...

A Mexican American couple sit eating at a table at Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, a restaurant at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri as a Mexican American waitress and a Mexican American...

A Mexican American couple stands at the counter of Herrera's Tenderloin Grill and watch as the waitress on the other side of the counter packs food in a to-go container. Restaurant patrons are visible...

A crowd of Mexican Americans east at five tables at the Tenderloin Grill at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Between two signs on the wall that say Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, is the...

Mexican American female dancers in traditional dress entertain Mexican American men and women sitting at dining tables at an unknown MANA de Kansas City event.

Dawn Williams goes through the breakfast buffet line with two other hispanic American women at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event at the Hilton Plaza Inn in Kansas City, Missouri.

Three Mexican American adults and one Mexican American girl sit together during a meal. The woman in the center is Dawn Williams. The woman hugging the girl is Pauline Rios.

Dina Castro, holding several plates of food, turns to smile at the camera during the MANA de Kansas City mole dinner for the Mattie Rhodes Center. This is likely at the Guadalupe Parish Center is in...

Three Mexican American women, Dina Castro, Annalisa Miranda, and Mary Quiroz, serve punch during the MANA Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees. Cookies are also on the table with the punch bowl...

Dina Castro and Grace Marion, both Mexican American women, and Joe Castro, a Mexican American man, and smile at the camera at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Dina and Joe Castro hold wine...