MANA de Kansas City Collection

Four Mexican American women sit at a long table making masks from construction paper at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Left to right: Mary Murguia, Anna Maria Bellatin, Elzabeth...

Four Mexican American women attend to a meeting at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. One woman, Yolanda Medina, stands behind a lectern with a microphone attached to it with Hilton Plaza Inn...

Four Mexican American women laugh and talk as they stand in possibly a church kitchen cooking. Two women have their backs to the camera, the one on the right is Dina Castro, at an unidentified MANA de...

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...

Four Mexican American women stand in front of a Christmas tree for a photograph during the Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees. On the left side of the photograph is Mary Quiroz. Then an...

Four Mexican American women sitting in the front row smile and turn as they are seated to look at the audience at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. One the left wearing a teal and black...

Four Mexican American women, three sitting at a long table, Anna Maria Bellatin, and Rose Vest, with their work on the table in front of them, and one standing behind these three, Freda Mendez-Smith...

Two women in the front of the photograph talk as they prepare menudo for the Menudo dinner at Herrera's Tenderloin Grill in Kansas City, Missouri. The one on the left side of the photograph is Mary...

Four Mexican American women work in the kitchen preparing menudo for the Menudo dinner at Herrera's Tenderloin Grill in Kansas City, Missouri. The woman second from the left side of the photograph is...

A Mexican American woman on the right standing behind a microphone looks to the left as she hands a framed recognition to another Mexican American woman on the right during an unknown MANA de Kansas...

Freda Mendez Smith, Virginia Pastrano, Anita Valdivia, Dina Castro, and Teresa Rodriguez, all Mexican American women, stand together in front of a stage with a baby grand piano on it at the 1987...

Two Mexican American women, Freda Mendez-Smith and Rose Vest, sit and give big smiles to the camera during Community Services Award event at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri...

Sally Ramos, a Mexican American woman, stands behind a woman seated and playing a piano, as she sings from a sheet of paper during the Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees in 1989. A...

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...

Freda Mendez-Smith, a Mexican American woman, speaks into a microphone on a podium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Eight Mexican American women stand in a line beside her and in front of...

Freda Mendez-Smith, a Mexican American woman, stands behind a lectern in front of a stage in possibly a school gymnasium and turns to the left to swear in the eight Mexican American women to their...

A gift is given to Pauline Mischandes by three Mexican American women as they stand in front of a Christmas tree and behind a table with Santa Claus on it during a Posada del Sol Christmas party for...

A Mexican American girl with her face painted looks at the camera as she holds a handful of candy and an animal balloon and wears a visor at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event.

A close-up photograph of a smiling Mexican American girl outdoors with Mexican American families walking behind her on the grace at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event.

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius looks to her left as she stands behind a lectern and speaks into the microphone on Hispanic Day on the Hill in the Kansas Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. A...

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...