MANA de Kansas City Collection

Long tables filled with seated Mexican American men and women and one African American woman during a Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees.

Lou Bowersox, Freda Mendez Smith, and Bertha Estada, all Mexican American women, stand together and smile at the camera during the Community Service Awards event for MANA de Kansas City. A handwritten...

Bea Marie Mejia, a Mexican American woman, and an unidentified white man laugh as he holds a gift in between them. The photograph is taken from behind the couple to show the seated audience looking on...

A Mexican American man, Joe Castro, and a Mexican American woman, Bea Marie Mejia, smile at the camera as he holds a present wrapped in red in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City...

A Mexican American woman takes a drink as the Mexican American man, Christopher Morales, she visits with smiles at the camera as they stand during an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner.

A Mexican American woman gesture with her left hand as she stands facing a Mexican American man who is listening to her. A Mexican American woman, Sally Ramos Magaña, stands behind them with a big...

A Mexican American man and woman laugh as she holds a Styrofoam food container. Balloons are mostly out of the photograph in the upper left-hand corner. One Mexican American woman is seated behind...

A Mexican American woman bends to register at a table with a red tablecloth as a Mexican American man waits beside her during a Posada del Sol Christmas party for retirees. One Mexican American woman...

A Mexican American woman, Elvira Valenzuela Crocker, MANA National President, and a Mexican American man stand in front of the speakers table at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City awards dinner. The...

A Mexican American man looks up to smile at the camera as he chooses a baked good from the counter at Herrera's Tenderloin Grill at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Several Mexican...

A Mexican American man helps an older Mexican American woman make her way through a buffet line at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City holiday event at Posada del Sol. The line continues behind them...

A Mexican American man sits beside an older Mexican American woman and slides her pie toward her at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City holiday event at Posada del Sol. Other participants can be seen...

A Mexican American man looks over the baked goods at Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. A honeycomb crepe paper ice cream cone hangs in the window behind the...

An African Mexican American man stands in the front of Sacred Heart Hall and speaks into a microphone he is holding during the Hispanic Family in the Year 2000: Parents in Action event in Kansas City...

A unidentified white man clasps his hands as he stands and speaks during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. Balloons and a rainbow are painted on the glass wall behind him. He wears a KAMB Kansas...

A Mexican American man stands behind and speaks into a microphone as he puts his arm on the shoulder of the Mexican American woman to his left during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. Three other...

A Mexican American man stands behind and speaks into a microphone during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event. A Mexican American woman stands to the right. Two Mexican American women, Mary Estrada on...

A Mexican American man spreads his arms wide as he bends slightly to stand behind and speak into a microphone during an unknown MANA de Kansas City event.

A man waves as he goes out the door of Herrera's Tenderloin Grill, a restaurant at 900 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, a blurred photograph. Mexican American men and women sit eating at...

MANA Chapter Presidents stand six in the back row and sit three in front for a group photograph in Washington, DC in 1989. The woman seated farthest to the left of the photograph is Mary Lou Jaramillo...

A Mexican American woman speaks into a microphone attached to a podium that sits atop a table while five other Mexican American women sit or stand behind the table at an unidentified MANA banquet...

Two Mexican American women talk inside the MANA de Kansas City booth at possibly Fiesta Hispana on Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Four Mexican American men stand in a group together...

Two Mexican American women talk across the MANA de Kansas City booth wall at, possibly, Fiesta Hispana, on Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri as another Mexican American woman and Mexican...

Two Mexican American women talk outside of a MANA de Kansas City booth at possibly Fiesta Hispana on Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Two Mexican American women inside the booth lean in...

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