MANA de Kansas City Collection

Six Mexican American women sit on lawn chairs wearing casual clothing and visit. Freda Mendez-Smith sits with her fingers entwined around her knee. To her left is Sally Ramos with her elbow resting on...

Six Mexican American women dine with one Mexican American man at a banquet table at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. A banner hangs on the wall that reads, "MANA de Kansas City...

Six Mexican American women stand in a line in front of a screen holding a present each and a certificate each during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event.

Six Mexican American women sit at a long table with a red tablecloth and turn their heads to smile at the camera during the MANA Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees. Their plates on the table...

Six Mexican American women stand in a line together as another Mexican American, possibly Sally Ramos, woman hands them a blue card at an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. The woman on the right side...

Six Mexican American women stand together and smile for a photograph as the woman in the center, Mary Estrada, holds a large plaque that honors past presidents of MANA de Kansas City during an unknown...

In a blurry photograph, six seated Mexican American women throw their heads back in laughter in the Kansas Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas on Hispanic Day on the Hill.

Two Mexican American women at the banquet table look at the camera and smile while two other Mexican American women and two Mexican American men look away an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards...

A Mexican American woman, Sonia Raquel Rosario, adjusts the microphone on a lectern during Community Services Award event at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri. There is a light...

Two Mexican American women, Sonia Rosario and Mary Quiroz, hold hands and laugh as they stand behind a lectern with a microphone that Sonia speaks into during Community Services Award event at the...

Two Mexican American women, Sonia Rosario and Rita Jaramillo, look down seriously as they sit at a table during Community Services Award event at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City...

An unidentified Mexican American female speaker smiles as she looks to her right from behind the lectern with the microphone at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. A banner hangs behind...

The Mexican American speaker, Yolanda Medina, points to a tablet behind the speakers' table at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Three other Mexican American women sit behind the table...

Stacey Alvarez, a Mexican American woman sits in the audience next to a Mexican American teenage boy at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. A Mexican American couple sit behind her smiling. The...

A room full of Mexican American women, some seated around a long table and others standing around the edges of the room in a standing-room-only meeting during the MANA Annual Meeting in Albuquerque...

Governor Kathleen Sebelius and possibly Elias Garcia stand behind a lectern and hold up a t-shirt commemorating Hispanic Day on the Hill in the Kansas Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. A painting of...

Mexican American teenage girls sit at tables looking to the right while listening to a presentation that is not visible in the photograph during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. A Mexican...

Mexican American teenage girls sit at tables listening to a presentation that is not visible in the photograph during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. A Mexican American woman, DaLinda Galaviz...

Nine Mexican American women stand in the front of an auditorium with the stage behind them and look at the woman speaking into the microphone on the lectern, Sally Ramos, at an unidentified MANA de...

Nine Mexican American women stand in the front of an auditorium with the stage behind them and look at the woman speaking into the microphone on the lectern, Sally Ramos, at an unidentified MANA de...

Ten Mexican American women and one baby that is mostly out of the photograph on the right side, stand together smiling and holding sheets of paper in their hands during a Posada del Sol Christmas...

Ten young Mexican American women stand at the side of a gym divided into pairs as each pair looks down at a sheet of paper at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. DaLinda Galaviz is on the...

Three Mexican American children make a craft while in an outdoor booth seated at a wooden table with craft materials on it during Fiesta Hispana.

Two unidentified Mexican American women stand with Risa Puga, who is also a Mexican American woman, and smile at the camera and an at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The two women on the...

Three Mexican American women and one Mexican American attend to a registration table by looking over the printed materials at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event at the Hilton Plaza Inn in...