MANA de Kansas City Collection

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.

Mexican American children line up in an outdoor booth that is sponsored by MANA de Kansas City during Hispanic Heritage Festival. There are fountains behind the booth. A man stands outside the booth...

Mexican American kids line up to enter the MANA de Kansas City booth to shoot a basketball through a child-sized basketball hoop during Hispanic Heritage Week. A Mexican American woman stands next to...

Mexican American kids line up to enter the MANA de Kansas City booth to shoot a basketball through a child-sized basketball hoop during Hispanic Heritage Week. A Mexican American woman, possibly Anna...

Mexican American children line up in an outdoor booth that is sponsored by MANA de Kansas City. There are fountains behind the booth. A man stands outside the booth on the left. There are two Mexican...

Eleven Mexican American women and two Mexican American men sit and stand in a large room of, perhaps, a community building during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event.

Six Mexican American women are laughing and animated as they stand in a line together in front of a Christmas tree and decorations. A handwritten label attached to the lower left-hand corner says,...

Linda Reyes, a Mexican American woman seated at a conference table, is given a Teddy bear that is wrapped in cellophane during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. Another Mexican American woman sits...

Linda Reyes, a Mexican American woman seated at a conference table, is given a Teddy bear that is wrapped in cellophane during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. Another Mexican American woman sits...

A grinning woman hands a Teddy bear wrapped in cellophane to Linda Reyes, a Mexican American woman who is seated at a conference table with another Mexican American woman seated behind her during an...

A line of Mexican American people stand outside double doors and on a staircase waiting to eat during the MANA de Kansas City mole dinner for the Mattie Rhodes Center. A banner hangs on a door that...

A line of Mexican American women: the first one is Rose Vest, the next one, Teresa Rodriguez, who is holding a baby, and the third one is Dina Castro; walk to the front of a room to perform for a...