MANA de Kansas City Collection

Grace Marion, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone of a podium sitting atop a table at a banquet at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event at the Hilton Plaza Inn in Kansas City...

Grace Marion, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone of a podium sitting atop a table at a banquet at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event at the Hilton Plaza Inn in Kansas City...

Grace Marion, a Mexican American woman, is photographed in profile as she speaks into a microphone of a podium sitting atop a table at a banquet at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The men...

Grace Marion, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone of a podium sitting atop a long table at a banquet at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The men and women attending the...

Grace Marion, a Mexican American woman, stands behind a podium on the floor in front of a stage and speaks into a microphone during an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. A banner that hangs on...

Grace Marion, a Mexican American woman, smiles directly at the camera. A Mexican American woman sitting with Grace at a high-top table, Beatrice Rodriguez, turns her head to smile at the camera. A...

Ten women, one of them African American, the others Latina, stand in a line during a Moda Latina Show. A banner hangs on the wall up by the ceiling that reads, "MANA De Kansas City. A National Latina...

A group of Mexican American women and one Mexican American man attending the first Moda Latina Show, Arcadian Hall, in Overland Park, Kansas. Four of the women and the man are seated at a round table...

Eight Mexican American women stand together by a wall with a door in it in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Bea Marie Mejia stands second from the left wearing a pink jacket...

Eight Mexican American women stand together by a wall with a door in it in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Two of the women have their eyes closed. Bea Marie Mejia stands...

Eight Mexican American women stand in a line in front of a stage, raise their right hands, as they face Freda Mendez-Smith whose back is to the camera as she faces the group of women at an...

Six Mexican American women sit at a round table and smile at the camera at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The buffet line and other attendees are in the background of the photograph.

A group of Mexican American women stand behind a seated Mexican American man, who is laughing, at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City holiday event at Posada del Sol. The women hold sheets of paper in...

Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, a restaurant at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, is busy with customers as a Mexican American waitress hands an order to Beatrice Rodriguez behind the...

Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, a restaurant at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, has three tables filled with Mexican American men and women and one white man and one white woman who are...

Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, a restaurant at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, is busy with Mexican American customers at the tables and at the counter as well as one white male at the...

Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, a restaurant at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, is filled with Mexican Americans who are eating at tables and at the counter.

Freda Mendez-Smith and an unidentified woman, both Mexican American women, hold up customized t-shirts during the 1987 installation ceremony for MANA de Kansas City. An unidentified Mexican American...

A panel of three Mexican American women and one Mexican American man sit at a table with name cards in front of each participant at the Hispanic Family in the Year 2000: Parents in Action event. The...

An unidentified Mexican American woman, Joe Castro, Dina Castro, and an unidentified Mexican American teenage girl stand by the auditorium wall at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event and smile...

Joe and Dina Castro, Mexican American audience members, visit with an unidentified white woman audience member at unknown MANA de Kansas City event.

Joe and Dina Castro, Mexican American audience members, visit with an unidentified white woman audience member at unknown MANA de Kansas City banquet event.

A group picture of nine Mexican American women members of MANA whom had been MANA Chapter Presidents and attended the Mana National Conference in Washington, D.C. Three women sit in front and six...

A group picture of nine Mexican American women members of MANA whom had been MANA Chapter Presidents and attended the Mana National Conference in Washington, D.C. Three women sit in front and six...

Unidentified Mexican American audience members share a meal at a long tables at unknown MANA de Kansas City event. Kathy Quinn, a television journalist and the keynote speaker sits second from the...