Chicanos — Los Angeles (Calif.) — Social conditions.

  • Zoot suit murders / by Thomas Sanchez ; interviewed by Barbara Cady.

    Author disucsses his book about Chicano life in Los Angeles during the early twentieth century.|ZOOT SUIT MURDERS / Thomas Sanchez| interviewed by Barbara Cady. – Sanchez, author of a best-selling novel, discusses his theories about the causes of the bloody Zoot Suit riots. – BROADCAST: KPFK, Dec. 15, 1978.

  • Growing old Chicano

    Aurelia Morris visits the Maravilla old people’s home in East Los Angeles for this documentary on aging in the Chicano community, with the assistance of José Cuellar, Professor of Anthropology at the Claremont College Chicano Studies Center.

  • Pensamientos femeninos

    The perspective of five Chicanas in today’s movement, featuring Adelaida Del Castillo, linguistics major at UCLA and associate editor of the first Chicana magazine, entitled Encuentro Femenil; Francisca Flores, director of the Chicana Service Action Center, which provides employment and job training; Alicia Escalante, founder of and consultant to the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization; Evelina…

  • Problems of youth (Episode 1 of 3)

    First of a three-part series dealing with Chicano adolescents in a depressed East Los Angeles area. This program is introduced by Mike Tigar, who then allows the young men to speak for themselves – about jobs, school, police, parents, etc. The comments were recorded, transcribed and selected for broadcast by the participants themselves.