Photograph of a street in Uvalde, Texas. Shows a road on the left side of the image. A small building, possibly a corner store, with an advertisement to drink Coca Cola and a sign on the roof reads Manuel Valdez. A man holding a bicycle and two children with a bicycle are standing in front of the building. It’s unclear if this photograph is supposed to show a street near a school but it’s part of a set of photographs documenting schools in Uvalde. Photograph identifier sanuva11.
Creator/Contributor:
Sánchez, George Isidore, 1906-1972 (collector)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1940s
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
negatives (photographs), still image, and photographs
Rights - Use and Reproduction:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Language:
not applicable
Topic:
Discrimination in education--Texas, Mexican Americans, Mexican American children--Education--Texas, Public schools--Texas, and School buildings--Texas
Place Name:
Uvalde (Tex.)
Geographic Coverage:
United States (country), Texas (state), and Uvalde County (county)
General Note:
Part of Series V. Photographs, 1930s-1966 of the George I. Sánchez Papers. Photographs documenting conditions in schools for Mexican American children as part of "A Study of the Educational Opportunities Provided Spanish-Name Children in Ten Texas School Systems" by Virgil E. Strickland and George I. Sánchez (1948). This study preceded a successful District Court decision, Delgado v. Bastrop ISD, which led to desegregation of Texas schools for Mexican American children.
Citation Note:
George I. Sánchez Papers, Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin