A People’s History of the Inland Empire Digital Archive

Coyazo Family

2022.006.086

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"Santos Coyazo, pictured here with her children Consuelo, Sam and infant Blas in 1911, walked pregnant with her husband, Dionicio, and two children to come to the United States. Over 80 years later, Blas recalled, "My parents came from Mexico, from the state of Zacatecas. It's a mining city, and my dad used to work there when he was a young man. That would be around the turn of the century. Things were getting tough for them, and they wanted to come to the United States to better themselves. So they decided, my mother and my dad and one son and one daughter, to come to the United States. They came from Zacatecas all the way to Juarez in the state of Chihuahua and to El Paso. In those years, people would pay a certain amount, which was not too much to cross the boundary from one nation to the other. So from there we came to Redlands in 1910, and I was born the following year, 1911." Blas Coyazo was the first interview for Antonio Vasquez's oral history project and was interviewed twice." (Vasquez and Carpio, 15)

Immigration

Familial Life

Zacatecas

Juarez (Mexico)

1910-1990

unknown

1911

Inland Mexican Heritage, Courtesy of Blas Coyazo

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English

Vasquez, Antonio Gonzalez, and Genevieve Carpio. Mexican Americans in Redlands. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2012.