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Manuel Armenta Jr shares photos and memories of his band The Armenta Brothers. He presents the experience as a musician about performances at El Monte Legion Stadium and the greater Los Angeles area.

PDF Cover of Olga Gutierrez Master Thesis uncovering the history of El Montes schools segregation history.

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Interview of Michael Jaime Becerra in which he discusses what his life was like growing up in El Monte, California.

In this extract, Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez Ortega talks about her first job in California, at the Sbicca shoe factory in El Monte.

In this extract, Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez Ortega talks about the frequent raids carried out by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the shoe factories of El Monte, which resulted with many workers being detained and…

Attorney Edward Ortega shares his memories of his participation in the injunction filed against the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in 1978 to suspend deportation of allegedly undocumented workers.

Apolonio Morales is a community organizer who works on immigration issues at the national level. Apolonio Morales has worked in several communities around the country in order to organize labor workers. The reason he got into politics was due to the…

This is an interview with El Monte area punk musicians discussing their experiences in the punk scene growing up to now.