Guide to the Garcia Family Papers

Colorado State University-Pueblo Library, University Archives and Special Collections

2200 Bonforte Blvd
Pueblo, CO 81001
Phone: 719-549-2475
URL: http://library.colostate-pueblo.edu/about/departments/archives/index.html



1963-2009 and no date

Collection Summary

Title: Garcia Family Papers
Dates 1963-2009 and no date
Creator: Colorado State University-Pueblo
Abstract: Includes personal papers, photographs, publications, and newspaper clippings relating to the life and activities of Chicano activist Louie 'Lugs' Garcia and his family.
Identification number: CSUP-EGAR
Quantity: 5 boxes
Repository: Colorado State University-Pueblo Library, University Archives and Special Collections 2200 Bonforte Blvd Pueblo, CO 81001 Phone: 719-549-2475 URL: http://library.colostate-pueblo.edu/about/departments/archives/index.html
Languages English

Biography

Louie 'Lugs' Garcia was a Chicano activist in Pueblo, Colorado. A one-time Brown Beret, he campaigned for the rights of farm workers, bilingual education and organized the cleanup of the Salt Creek barrio area of Pueblo.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged into seven series. The series are as follows:

Series 1, Personal Papers, 1972-2003 and no date

Series 2, Photographs, 1973 and no date

Series 3, Subject Files, 1963-2005 and no date

Series 4, Publications, 1967-2006 and no date

Series 5, Newspaper Clippings, 1971-2009 and no date

Series 6, Oversize Printed Matter, 1971-2008 and no date

Series 7, Water Samples from Salt Creek area of Pueblo, Colorado

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of papers, photographs and printed materials relating to the activities of Chicano activist Louis 'Lugs' Garcia.

Preferred Citation:

Garcia Family Papers, University Archives and Special Collections, Colorado State University-Pueblo Library.

Processing:

Minimal processing completed by Assistant Archivist Reyes Martinez Lopez, and University Archivist Beverly Allen, February 27, 2012.

Acquisition:

The material was acquired by donation from Delfina Garcia, widow of Louie 'Lugs' Garcia..

Index Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Colorado State University-Pueblo Library's catalog. Researchers seeking materials about related subjects, persons, organizations or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Audiovisual Materials.

Chicano Movement -- Colorado.

Chicano Movement -- United States.

Discrimination in Education -- Colorado -- Education -- History -- 20th Century -- Sources.

Hispanic Americans -- Civil Rights.

Mexican Americans -- Civil Rights.

Mexican Americans -- History.

Mexican Americans -- Social Conditions -- Colorado -- History -- 20th Century -- Sources.

Newspapers.

Periodicals.

Pueblo (Colo.) -- History.

Water -- Pollution -- Colorado -- Pueblo County.

Inventory

Series 1 
Personal Papers   1972-2003 and no date

Description Container

Certificates  1972
Box 1 Folder 1

Greetings cards  no date

Box 1 Folder 2

Memorial cards  1997-2003

Box 1 Folder 3

Notebook: Pollution from CF and I slag dump, Pueblo, CO  no date
Box 1 Folder 4

Notebook: Pollution, Blende, CO  no date
Box 1 Folder 5

Notebook: Pollution, Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO  no date
Box 1 Folder 6

Notebook: Pollution, Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO  no date
Box 1 Folder 7

Notebook: Pollution, Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO  no date
Box 1 Folder 8

Personal letters  1975-1988

Box 1 Folder 9

Series 2 
Photographs  ca. 1973 and no date

Description Container

Delgado’s Farms and unidentified, color photographs  no date

Box 1 Folder 10

Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO [?], color photographs  no date
Box 1 Folder 11

Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO [?], color photographs  no date
Box 1 Folder 12

Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO, cleanup, United Farm Workers marches and demonstrations, Louie Luggs, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and others, black/white and color photographs   no date
Box 1 Folder 13

Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO, cleanup, United Farm Workers marches and demonstrations, Louie Luggs, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and others, black/white and color photographs   no date
Box 1 Folder 14

Salt Creek, Pueblo, CO, cleanup, United Farm Workers marches and demonstrations, Louie Luggs, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and others, black/white and color photographs   no date
Box 1 Folder 15

Black/white photographs, unidentified   no date

Box 1 Folder 16

Black/white photographs, 1 negative, unidentified  no date

Box 1 Folder 17

Color photographs, unidentified   ca. 1973

Box 1 Folder 18

Photographs (Xerox copies), unidentified  no date
Box 1 Folder 19

Series 3 
Subject Files  1963-2005 and no date

Description Container

Bishop’s Advisory Council   1974
Box 1 Folder 20

Central America   1990-1992 and no date

Box 1 Folder 21

Cesar Chavez, United Farmworkers Union, includes flier signed by Chavez   1986-2005

Box 1 Folder 22

Chicano Barrio Education Committee: “Statement of issues to School District No. 60 School Board”   30 Jan 1973

Box 1 Folder 23

Civil rights legislation   1963-1974

Box 1 Folder 24

Coca, Francisco   no date

Box 1 Folder 25

Contact lists   no date

Box 1 Folder 26

Coors, English Language amendment, CO   no date

Box 1 Folder 27

District No. 60 Schools, Pueblo, CO   1971-1974

Box 1 Folder 28

English Only Movement   1987-1988 and no date

Box 1 Folder 29

Foster care   1977

Box 1 Folder 30

La Raza Unida, Cleanup Program disclaimers   1972

Box 1 Folder 31

List: “People who voted against us”   no date

Box 1 Folder 32

List: “Priorities” [Chicano rights]   no date

Box 1 Folder 33

Los Seis de Boulder   1974, 2002

Box 1 Folder 34

Martinez, Francisco “Kiko”   1989

Box 1 Folder 35

Pueblo Community Action Center   1972 and no date

Box 1 Folder 36

Salt Creek [Barrio Salao]   1972-2004 and no date

Box 1 Folder 37

Salt Creek [Barrio Salao]   1972 and no date

Box 1 Folder 38

Salt Creek pollution, CFandI, Ted Lopez: Handwritten notes   no date

Box 1 Folder 39

Song lyrics  1988 and no date

Box 1 Folder 40

Southern Colorado Chicano Planning Council   1975

Box 1 Folder 41

Southern Colorado Comprehensive Mental Health Center   1973

Box 1 Folder 42

Statement: “An account is overdue”   ca. 1973

Box 1 Folder 43

Tierra Amarilla (Amarilla land grant)   1989 and no date

Box 1 Folder 44

Series 4 
Publications  1971-2006 and no date

Description Container

Ahora! Volume 4, no. 4  March 13, 1973
Box 2 Folder 1

Ahora! Volume 4, no. 15  November-December 1973
Box 2 Folder 2

Akwesasne Notes [partial issue]  Early Summer 1973
Box 2 Folder 3

Akwesasne Notes [partial issue]  Early Autumn 1976
Box 2 Folder 4

Akwesasne Notes [partial issue]  Late Autumn 1976
Box 2 Folder 5

Akwesasne Notes [partial issue]  Late Autumn 1976
Box 2 Folder 6

Alert! Focus on Central America, Volume 8, number 2  March 1990

Box 2 Folder 7

Alert! Focus on Central America, Volume 8, number 4  May 1990
Box 2 Folder 8

Al Frente de Lucha, Vol. 2, no. 1  Enero-Febrero 1978

Box 2 Folder 9

The Aztec Report!  August/September 1993

Box 2 Folder 10

CASC: Central American Solidarity Coalition   no date
Box 2 Folder 11

Con Safos Magazine   Winter 1998

Box 2 Folder 12

Congresso Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (CUFA) newsletters   1975-1976
Box 2 Folder 13

Cuaderno de la Resolana   no date
Box 2 Folder 14

The East Side Neighborhood Association Highlights, Vol. II, Issue 3   March 2005
Box 2 Folder 15

El Aviso: Neighborhood News for Salt Creek, Vol. 1, Issue 1   Winter 2004
Box 2 Folder 16

El Aviso: Neighborhood News for Salt Creek, Vol. 1, Issue 2   Spring 2005
Box 2 Folder 17

El Aviso: Neighborhood News for Salt Creek, Vol. 1, Issue 3   Spring 2005
Box 2 Folder 18

El Aviso: Neighborhood News for Salt Creek, Vol. 1, Issue 6   August 2005
Box 2 Folder 19

El Diario de la Gente, Vol. I, no. 2  13 de Deciembre 1973
Box 2 Folder 20

El Diario de la Gente, Vol. II, no. 1   Cinco de Mayo 1974
Box 2 Folder 21

El Diario de la Gente, Vol. III, no. 3  Octubre 3 ,1974
Box 2 Folder 22

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia, Vol. IV, no. 3   April 1974
Box 2 Folder 23

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia, Vol. IV, no. 6   August 1972
Box 2 Folder 24

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia, Vol. 5, no. 6   October 1973

Box 2 Folder 25

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia, Vol. 6, no. 1   November-December 1973 and January 1974

Box 2 Folder 26

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia, Vol. 7, no. 5   July 1975
Box 2 Folder 27

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia, Vol. 7, no. 6   November 1977

Box 2 Folder 28

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia [partial issue]  no date
Box 2 Folder 29

El Gallo: La Voz de la Justicia [partial issue]   no date

Box 2 Folder 30

Hispania, Volumen II, Numero 9  15 de Junio 1988
Box 2 Folder 31

Hispania, Volumen II, Numero 9  15 de Septiembre 1988
Box 2 Folder 32

Hispania [partial issue]   18 Julio 1990
Box 2 Folder 33

Hoy, no. 1600   23 de Enero de 1971
Box 2 Folder 34

La Bandera   Summer 1997
Box 2 Folder 35

Labor Action   April/May 1990
Box 2 Folder 36

La Cucaracha, Vol. II, no. 6  Julio 1977
Box 2 Folder 37

La Cucaracha, Vol. II, no. 7  Agosto 1977
Box 2 Folder 38

La Cucaracha, Vol. II, no. 8 [2 copies]  El Diez y Seis de Septiembre 1977
Box 2 Folder 39

La Cucaracha, Vol. II, no. 9  Octubre 1977
Box 2 Folder 40

La Cucaracha, Vol. II, no. 10  Noviembre 1977
Box 2 Folder 41

La Cucaracha, Vol. III, no. 3  Marzo 1978
Box 2 Folder 42

La Cucaracha, Vol. III, no. [5]   Mayo 1978
Box 2 Folder 43

La Cucaracha, Vol. III, no. 12  31 de Octubre 1978
Box 2 Folder 44

La Cucaracha, Vol. III, no.13 [ 2 copies]  20 de Noviembre 1978
Box 2 Folder 45

La Cucaracha, Vol. IV, no. 1 [2 copies]  9 de Enero 1979
Box 2 Folder 46

La Cucaracha, Vol. IV, no. 4  1 de Abril 1979
Box 2 Folder 47

La Cucaracha, Vol. IV, no. 5   Cinco de Mayo 1979
Box 2 Folder 48

La Cucaracha, Vol. IV, no. 9  1 de Agosto 1979
Box 2 Folder 49

La Cucaracha, Vol. V, no. 5 [with color cover]  Cinco de Mayo 1980
Box 2 Folder 50

La Cucaracha, Vol. V, no. 5 [without color cover]  Cinco de Mayo 1980
Box 2 Folder 51

La Cucaracha, Vol. V, no. 19  15-21 Agosto 1980
Box 2 Folder 52

La Cucaracha, Vol. V, no. 37   19-25 de Diciembre 1980
Box 2 Folder 53

La Cucaracha, Vol. VI, no. 1  9-15 de Enero 1981

Box 2 Folder 54

La Cucaracha, Vol. VI, no. 4  30 de Enero 1981

Box 2 Folder 55

Montelibre Monthly, Volumen 1, numero 2   Junio de 1988
Box 2 Folder 56

Montelibre Monthly, Volumen 1, numero 9  Marzo 1989
Box 2 Folder 57

Montelibre Monthly, Volumen 3, numero 29   Abril 1991
Box 2 Folder 58

Navajo Times, Vol. XXVII, no. 27  July 6, 1989

Box 2 Folder 59

Red Brick, Vol. 1, no. 2  no date
Box 2 Folder 60

Under the Rug: Colorado’s Children and Youth, Vol. 1  July 1975
Box 2 Folder 61

Valley Voice, Volume 4, no. 1  Winter 1994

Box 2 Folder 62

The VLine: For VISTA Volunteers, Vol. 2, no. 8  December 29, 1972

Box 2 Folder 63

Ya Basta!   Spring 1988

Box 2 Folder 64

Ya Basta! No. 2   Spring 1988

Box 2 Folder 65

Ya Basta! No 3 [2 copies]  August 1988

Box 2 Folder 66

Ya Basta! No. 4 [2 copies]  October 1988

Box 2 Folder 67

Ya Basta! [2 copies]  May 1989

Box 2 Folder 68

Ya Basta! [2 copies]  July 1989

Box 2 Folder 69

Ya Basta! [2 copies]  Otono 1989

Box 2 Folder 70

Ya Basta! Vol. IV, No. 1 [2 copies]  Primavera 1991

Box 2 Folder 71

Ya Basta! Vol. VIII, No. 2  Summer 1996

Box 2 Folder 72

Ya Bsta! Vol. XI, No. 1  [1999]
Box 2 Folder 73

Ya Basta! Special Edition   no date

Box 2 Folder 74

Article: “An impediment to cultural pluralism: Culturally deficient educators attempting to teach culturally different children.”   no date

Box 2 Folder 75

Booklet: “A Message from Assata [Shakur]” [on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Marion Lockdown]   no date
Box 2 Folder 76

Community Action Program: Community Education: Tutorial Programs   October 1967

Box 2 Folder 77

Council for Inter-American Security. “A New Inter-American Policy for the Eighties.” (2 copies)   1980
Box 2 Folder 78

Council for Inter-American Security. Special report: “On Creating a Hispanic America: A Nation Within a Nation,” by R.E. “Rusty” Butler, Ph.D.  1988
Box 2 Folder 79

[Department of Justice]. “Report of the Community Relations Service: Student Unrest Survey.   September 1969
Box 2 Folder 80

Directory: Youth Services for Pueblo County   no date

Box 2 Folder 81

Maps   no date
Box 2 Folder 82

Navarro, Armando. “The evolution of Chicano politics.”   1974

Box 2 Folder 83

Parent Bilingual-Bicultural workshop, Centro de Quinto Sol [study material]   October 11, 1975

Box 2 Folder 84

St. Joseph School [Pueblo] Reunion   June 23, 24 and 25, 2006
Box 2 Folder 85

Typescript (mimeographed): “The History of George Morris”   no date

Box 2 Folder 86

Misc. publications: Calendars and catalogs   no date

Box 2 Folder 87

Series 5 
Newspaper clippings  1971-2009 and no date

Description Container

African-Americans  1980s

Box 3 Folder 1

Amache internment camp   1988
Box 3 Folder 2

Arellano, John   no date
Box 3 Folder 3

Aztec, NM – Recall petition   no date

Box 3 Folder 4

Boxers   1988
Box 3 Folder 5

Bessemer neighborhood   2009
Box 3 Folder 6

Castro, Fidel   1991

Box 3 Folder 7

Central America  1986-1989

Box 3 Folder 8

Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers (UFW)   1971-2003

Box 3 Folder 9

Cinco de Mayo [Pueblo, CO]   1988-2004

Box 3 Folder 10

Cisneros, Henry  1988

Box 3 Folder 11

Colorado State University-Pueblo   1974

Box 3 Folder 12

Community Organization Outreach of Pueblo   1974

Box 3 Folder 13

Coors Brewing Co.   1977-1991
Box 3 Folder 14

CU-Boulder – Demonstrations   1971

Box 3 Folder 15

Diez y Seis de Septiembre   1990

Box 3 Folder 16

Discrimination   1971
Box 3 Folder 17

District 60 (Pueblo schools)   1976-2005

Box 3 Folder 18

District 70 (Pueblo County schools)   2004-2005, no date

Box 3 Folder 19

Dolores Huerta Prep School   2006

Box 3 Folder 20

Elderly – Federal assistance programs   1977
Box 3 Folder 21

English Only/Bilingual Education   1988-2006

Box 3 Folder 22

Environmental issues: Fountain Creek and elsewhere in Colorado   1994-2007

Box 3 Folder 23

Garcia family  1974-2008

Box 3 Folder 24

Gonzales, Alberto   2007
Box 3 Folder 25

Gonzales, Rodolfo “Corky”, Crusade for Justice   1973-2005

Box 3 Folder 26

Health issues   1979-2007

Box 3 Folder 27

Hispanic Day of Action   no date

Box 3 Folder 28

Hispanic pioneers   1988

Box 3 Folder 29

Hispanics of Colorado   1989

Box 3 Folder 30

Homosexuals   1991

Box 3 Folder 31

Immigration (1 of 2)   1974-2005

Box 3 Folder 32

Immigration (2 of 2)   1974-2005

Box 3 Folder 33

Iran-Contra, Nicarauga   1986-1996

Box 3 Folder 34

Ku Klux Klan  1980s-1990s

Box 3 Folder 35

La Raza Unida   1972

Box 3 Folder 36

La Sierra Ranch [San Luis Valley, CO]   1994-2004

Box 3 Folder 37

Land – Otero/Las Animas Counties (CO)   no date

Box 3 Folder 38

Latter Day Saints (Mormons)   1994-2007

Box 3 Folder 39

Ludlow Massacre monument   2005

Box 3 Folder 40

LULAC  no date
Box 3 Folder 41

Francisco ‘Kiko’ Martinez   1982-1989
Box 3 Folder 42

Luis Martinez, Jr.   no date

Box 3 Folder 43

MEChA  1995
Box 3 Folder 44

Mexico  1971-2006
Box 3 Folder 45

National Education Task Force de la Raza   1975

Box 3 Folder 46

Native Americans, American Indian Movement (AIM)   1973-2005
Box 3 Folder 47

Richard Nixon   1973-1974

Box 3 Folder 48

Obituaries  1974-2005

Box 3 Folder 49

Occhiato, Mike   1988

Box 3 Folder 50

Police   1974-2004

Box 3 Folder 51

Poverty  1973-1991 and no date
Box 3 Folder 52

Prisons   1974-1994 and no date
Box 3 Folder 53

Protests   1977, 1989
Box 3 Folder 54

Protests – Columbus Day  2005

Box 3 Folder 55

Protests - Maryland   1972
Box 3 Folder 56

Pueblo   1975, 2007-2008 and no date

Box 3 Folder 57

Pueblo Community Action League  1972

Box 3 Folder 58

Pueblo – History   2004

Box 3 Folder 59

Pueblo – Politics   no date
Box 3 Folder 60

Pueblo Welfare Rights Organization   1975
Box 3 Folder 61

Race relations   1988 and no date

Box 3 Folder 62

Religion  2007
Box 3 Folder 63

Rocky Mountain Steel Corporation  2006
Box 3 Folder 64

Salt Creek  1972-2006

Box 3 Folder 65

San Luis, Taylor Ranch  1988-1989
Box 3 Folder 66

Schools  1988
Box 3 Folder 67

South America   1991

Box 3 Folder 68

Social security  1973 and no date

Box 3 Folder 69

U.S. Military   2007 and no date

Box 3 Folder 70

Unions  no date
Box 3 Folder 71

Vallejo, Edmund  1975
Box 3 Folder 72

Walkout (Denver)  1994
Box 3 Folder 73

Watergate  1974-1975
Box 3 Folder 74

Weddings  1988
Box 3 Folder 75

Welfare  1973-1989
Box 3 Folder 76

Yaklich, Donna  1988
Box 3 Folder 77

Series 6 
Oversize printed matter  1971-2008 and no date

Description Container

Daily Times (Farmington, NM)  July 21, 1989
Box 4 Folder 1

El Grito del Norte (Las Vegas, NM)  June 1973
Box 4 Folder 2

Independent (Gallup, NM)  July 7, 1989
Box 4 Folder 3

Independent (Gallup, NM)  July 20, 1989
Box 4 Folder 4

La Cucaracha, Vol. 5, no. 9, El Cinco de Mayo  May 5, 1980
Box 4 Folder 5

Pueblo Chieftain  March 30, 1976
Box 4 Folder 6

Pueblo Chieftain  April 20, 1976
Box 4 Folder 7

Pueblo Chieftain  February 16, 1978
Box 4 Folder 8

Pueblo Chieftain  February 16, 1978
Box 4 Folder 9

Pueblo Chieftain  February 17, 1978
Box 4 Folder 10

Pueblo Chieftain  April 25, 1978
Box 4 Folder 11

Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo Guidebook  2005
Box 4 Folder 12

Pueblo Star-Journal  April 5, 2007
Box 4 Folder 13

Pueblo Star-Journal and Sunday Chieftain  May 29, 1977
Box 4 Folder 14

Ya Basta, Vol. VII, no 1  June 23, 1994
Box 4 Folder 15

Ya Basta, Vol. III, no. 2  September 16, 1990
Box 4 Folder 16

Booklet: Memorial service for Richard Falcon  no date
Box 4 Folder 17

Bumper sticker, stickers  no date
Box 4 Folder 18

Caminos de Southern Colorado  Feb/March 2008
Box 4 Folder 19

Clipping mounted on wooden board: “Garcia Seeks District 42 Post,” La Raza Unida, Pueblo, CO, Aztlan  no date
Box 4 Folder 20

El Calendario Chicano  1976
Box 4 Folder 21

Goodhunt, Frank  2003
Box 4 Folder 22

Poster: Tribute to Richard Falcon  2002
Box 4 Folder 23

San Luis poaching sting  1989
Box 4 Folder 24

Scrapbook: Clippings re Brown/Black Berets, La Raza Unida  1971
Box 4 Folder 25

Scrapbook: Clippings re Salt Creek, housing, hair length, etc.  1971
Box 4 Folder 26

Misc. documents  no date
Box 4 Folder 27

Series 7 
Water samples from Salt Creek area of Pueblo, CO  no date

Description Container

Series 7 
Water samples from Salt Creek area of Pueblo, CO  no date