MANA de Kansas City Collection

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...

A close-up head-shot photograph of a Mexican American woman, Freda Mendez-Smith, wearing a navy blue pinstriped jacket during the first Moda Latina Show, Arcadian Hall, in Overland Park, Kansas.

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.

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...

Irma Carrillo, a Mexican American woman, speaks as she sits by John Fierro, a Mexican American man, both panelists in a discussion the Hispanic Family in the year 2000: Parents in Action conference.

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...

A Mexican American woman, Irma Maldonado, MANA national president, leans forward as she stands to speak into the microphone on top of a lectern during the MANA board installations for 1989.

In a blurred photograph, Juana "Janie" Perkins stands behind a lectern and speaks into the microphone during Hispanic Day on the Hill in the Kansas Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. A Mexican...

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.

Julia Zapata Dye, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone on the panelists' table during the Hispanic Family in the Year 2000: Parents in Action conference.

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...

Kathy Quinn, a Mexican American female television journalist, smiles as she stands behind the lectern atop a table at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. The front of the lectern reads...

Kathy Quinn, a Mexican American female television journalist, looks to her right as she speaks into a microphone she holds with her right hand at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. The...

Kathy Quinn, a Mexican American female television journalist, holds a microphone as she is speaking at unknown MANA de Kansas City event. A banner hangs behind the speaker's table that reads, "MANA de...

Kathy Quinn, center, a Mexican American television journalist and keynote speaker, visits with unidentified Mexican American women at unknown MANA de Kansas City event.