Preliminary Inventory of the F. Arturo Rosales Papers
Scope and Content Note
This collection houses oral history transcripts of eighty-eight individuals who played a significant role in the struggle for Chicano rights in the 1960s and 1970s, a list of marriages involving Mexicans and Mexican Americans recorded by Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Phoenix, office files, correspondence, research files, card files, and manuscript research documenting Roseles' research and publications on Mexican American history. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Archives and Special Collections for more information.
Dates
- Creation: 1926-2009
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
To view this collection, make an appointment at least five business days prior to your visit by contacting Ask an Archivist or calling (480) 965-4932. Appointments in the Wurzburger Reading Room at Hayden Library (rm. 138) on the Tempe campus are available Monday through Friday. Check the ASU Library Hours page for current availability.
Copyright
The Arizona Board of Regents retains copyright to this collection for and on behalf of the Arizona State University Library. Requests to publish, display, or redistribute information from this collection must be submitted via our online application.
Biographical Note
Francisco Arturo Rosales earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1978 and began teaching Mexican American, United States, and Latin American history at Arizona State University in 1980. He has published numerous books during his career, including Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1996), ¡Pobre Raza!: Violence, Crime, Justice, and Mobilization Among Mexico Lindo Immigrants, 1890 (1999), Testimonio: A Documentary History of the Mexican American Struggle for Civil Rights (2000), and A Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006). Chicano! accompanied a PBS documentary of the same name.
Full extent
17 Box(es)
Full extent
17 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses oral history transcripts of eighty-eight individuals who played a significant role in the struggle for Chicano rights in the 1960s and 1970s, a list of marriages involving Mexicans and Mexican Americans recorded by Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Phoenix, office files, correspondence, research files, card files, and manuscript research documenting Rosales' research and publications on Mexican American history. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Distinctive Collections for more information.
Arrangement
This collection consists of sixteen boxes divided into two series:
- Series I: Accession #2010-04402
- Series II: Accession #2011-04486
Provenance
F. Arturo Rosales donated these papers to the Chicano Research Collection in 2010 and 2011.
- Title
- Preliminary Inventory of the F. Arturo Rosales Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide encoded in English.
Repository details
Part of the Chicano/a Research Collection Repository
Contact
Arizona State UniversityP.O. Box 871006
Tempe AZ 85287-1006 United States
(480) 965-4932
archives@asu.edu