Audience at the Fourth Annual Dinner for the Greater Omaha Community Action, Inc., 1978

This collection houses 655 images documenting Graciela Olivarez's life and work between 1951 and 1982. The majority of these photographs depict Olivarez attending events, presenting or receiving awards, and giving speeches. Among the events shown are a fundraiser for Friendly House, the Southwest Conference on Poverty (1966), a Mexican American Democratic Organization meeting, Hispanic Heritage Week (1979), a Mexican American Opportunity Foundation Award presentation (1979), the Seventh Annual Macon County Grassroots Rally (1977), the New Mexico Minority Business Owners Conference (1975), the opening ceremony for the Cranston Community Action Committee Energy Conservation Program, a League of Mexican American Women awards presentation (circa 1963), the White House Conference on Mexican American Problems (1966), a Memphis Community Action Agency banquet (1978), the San Francisco Public Policy Forum, a Kentucky Association of Community Action event, a Milwaukee Community Action Program event, Greater Omaha Community Action, Inc.'s Fourth Annual Dinner (1978), and a Hawaii Community Action Program event (1979). Other images show Olivarez at KIFN radio and at Channel 48 KPHO-TV, on the Notre Dame campus, receiving an honorary degree from Notre Dame, and with family and friends. Also included are images showing various television and radio performers.