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| Amesqua, who became Madison’s first woman fire chief in 1996, was only the seventh woman in the country to lead a fire department |
| Date: | 12 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Mildred Horne and Ethel Rockwell, dressed in Mexican costumes, are at the Madison Woman's Club "Posada Mexicana" Christmas folk festival. |
| Date: | 12 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Mary Telford, dressed in a Mexican costume, is shown with a nativity scene at the Madison Woman's Club "Posada Mexicana" Christmas folk festival. |
| Date: | 12 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Christine Brinsmade is shown in Mexican costume doing an authentic Mexican dance at the Madison Woman's Club "Posada Mexicana" Christmas folk festival. |
| Date: | 07 07 1961 |
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| Description: | Several persons from foreign lands were special guests of honor at the tea. Shown with Frances Rieser (third from left), are Mrs. T.C. Pillay of India, Edu... |
| Date: | 07 1970 |
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| Description: | Linda Luna of Auraura, Illinois washes clothes at a basin outside a cabin in a migrant worker camp in Door County. Several articles of clothing are lying i... |
| Date: | 03 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Admiring the native Salvadorian dress worn by Maria Freund, at left, are her brothers Roberto, at center, chairman of Latin American Week; and Ernesto, at ... |
| Maria Luisa Morales has worked for justice for Latinx communities in Wisconsin since the 1960s |
| Date: | 07 28 1960 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth O'Brien and her daughter, Lu Ann, 4, are shown in their Shorewood Hills home extending hospitality to visiting labor union leaders Juan Duran Mar... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Migrant workers from Mexico, Joe Rio, his wife, and six of their eleven children, pose for a photo during a cherry harvest. |
| Date: | 04 12 1979 |
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| Description: | Several people in dresses are standing and holding up their skirts while dancing. Caption reads: "A dance group, the Los Bailarimos Folkloricos de Waukesh... |
| Ramona Villarreal is a Mexican American activist who has devoted her life to fighting for equality and justice for people with Mexican/Latinx heritage in Wisconsin. |
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| An education resources for grades 6-12 |
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| A resource designed for classroom use as a companion to the Somos Latinas book published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press |
| Anita Herrera grew up in a family of migrant farm workers and devoted her career to improving education, employment, and living conditions for people of color in Wisconsin. |
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