MANA de Kansas City Collection

Dina Castro, laughs as she prepares food (possibly menudo) at a countertop at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event.

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...

One Mexican American woman videotapes the photographer as she sits at a banquet table with five other diners relaxing after the meal at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. Estella...

Dr. Agapito Mendoza, Father Richard Vogt, Julia Zapata Dye, Rosie Chavez, and Diane Rangel Thompson sit on a panel at the Hispanic Family in the Year 2000: Parents in Action conference. Rosie Chavez...

A group of eight Mexican American women grin as they stand in line in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Bea Marie Mejia stands second in line from the right. Barbara Muro...

Eight Mexican American women stand in a line holding a single white rose each under a banner that reads, "MANA De Kansas City. A National Latina Organization," during an unknown MANA de Kansas City...

Eight Mexican American women laugh, grin or smile as they stand in line in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The woman on the left, Sally Ramos, is also grinning as she...

Eight Mexican American women stand clapping in the front of an auditorium with the stage behind them. One of the eight women, Grace Marion, stands at the podium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City...

A Mexican American woman named Katy, faces the left side of the photograph and reads from a piece of paper as seven other Mexican American women look toward the right side of the photograph during the...

Eight Mexican American women stand together in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. The woman on the left has her eyes closed. Bea Marie Mejia, wearing a pink jacket, stands...

Eight Mexican American women stand together in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Bea Marie Mejia, wearing a pink jacket, is the second from the left. In the center of the...

Eight women stand together, one white woman and the rest Mexican American, during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event.

Eleven Mexican American women stand together by a wall in an auditorium and read sheets of paper that every two people share. Stacey Alvarez is fifth from the right. DaLinda Galaviz stands farthest to...

Eleven Mexican American women and one Mexican American baby stand around a Christmas tree and behind a table with a Santa Claus on it and sing during a Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees...

Eleven Mexican American women, one Mexican American man, and one Mexican American child stand in a line in front of a Christmas tree during the MANA Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Most of...

A Mexican American woman, Elvira Crocker the MANA national executive vice president, stands behind a lectern and speaks into the microphone as a Mexican American woman, Dina Castro, in the audience...

Elvira Valenzuela Crocker, MANA National President, a Mexican American woman, speaks at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner.

Elvira Valenzuela Crocker, MANA National President, a Mexican American woman, looks down at her notes on a lectern she stands behind as she speaks into a microphone at an unidentified MANA de Kansas...

Elvira Valenzuela Crocker, MANA National President, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone as she stands behind a lectern at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner.

Elvira Valenzuela Crocker, MANA National President, speaks at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. Rachel Estada has her eyes closed and her chin lifted as she sits at a banquet table in...

Elvira Valenzuela Crocker, MANA National President, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone as she stands behind a lectern on a table at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner.

Elvira Valenzuela Crocker, MANA National President, a Mexican American woman, stands behind a lectern and microphone at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. Other banquet participants...

Mexican American men and women dine at banquet tables at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner.