MANA de Kansas City Collection

Estella Morales smiles as she wears a Christmas sweater and stands in an auditorium with two other Mexican American men (one whose back is turned toward the camera) and a Mexican American teenage girl...

A Mexican American woman, Esther Wolf, stands at the front of the room instructing seated Mexican American teenage girls during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. Another Mexican American woman and...

Every seat at the tables and counter is filled with Mexican American men and women eating at Herrera's Tenderloin Grill at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mexican American men, women or families are at every table and one person sits at the counter of Herrera's Tenderloin Grill at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Six Mexican American...

Mexican American families sit at long tables eating or wait in line behind the tables during the MANA de Kansas City mole dinner for the Mattie Rhodes Center. This is likely at the Guadalupe Parish...

A Mexican American family sit together eating dinner at a round table at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. A flag of the United States of America stands by the wall next to their...

Four Mexican American men and three Mexican American women chat during their meal as they are seated at a banquet table at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. One man, Clemente Raya...

Two Mexican American women sit on either side of a Mexican American man during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. Two other Mexican American women stand behind and to the side of the seated people...

Four Mexican American women hold up their right hands as they look down at blue cards they are holding in their left hands as they stand in front of a counter with a bouquet on it at possibly an...

Freda Mendez-Smith, the person on the farthest right side of the photograph, sits on the back row with an audience of Mexican American women and men, Delmira Quarles, an African American woman, and...

Grace Marion, a seated Mexican American woman with her back to the camera, shares a meal with Manny Lopez, a Mexican American man, and another man, perhaps also Mexican American, at an unidentified...

Grace Marion, a Mexican American woman, sits at the corner seat at a banquet table sharing a meal with three Mexican American men and another Mexican American woman, Dawn Williams, at an unidentified...

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 at the...

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, 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, 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...

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...

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, 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.

John Fierro, a Mexican American man, sits at the panelists table and listens as Hope Zapien speaks into a microphone she is holding during the Hispanic Family in the Year 2000: Parents in Action event...

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...