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Chani Beeman Oral History
Chani Beeman discusses the overlaps between and intersectionality of the LGBTQ community, women’s rights, and the empowerment of people of color. She discusses her family life, and that by the time she started college, she had two young children and had gotten remarried. She describes her exposure to the LGBTQ community during the 1980s AIDS crisis, and coming out when she was 28 years old. She mentions pressure from her family to conform to a more heteronormative lifestyle. While Chani Beeman was at Cal State San Bernardino, she became politically active and was openly gay. She describes her involvement in the socialist organization Solidarity, which emphasized the intersectionality of women’s rights, socialism, and anti-war movements. Chani Beeman also discusses her involvement in the Inland AIDS Project and Women Enraged! She shares details about her many collaborations and community organizing with other regional groups, commonly around social justice. She describes her involvement after the brutal murder of Nancy Willem in actions led by Women Enraged, including the Clothesline Project which brought attention to violence against women. Beeman also describes Women Enraged’s guerrilla theater, which included street demonstrations; other examples she offers include how WE wrote statistics about violence against women on dollar bills and distributed them in public. One of the slogans on the bills was “Stop sucking, start biting”. She is an active community organizer and member. -
Lupe Sanchez Band, 1964
Color photograph of the Lupe Sanchez Band with Blas Coyazo on guitar; Hemet Califorina, New Year's Eve 1964. Blas Coyazo said: "I play the bass guitar and the electric guitar and the electric guitar so for the last fifty years also, or more, out of the eighty-three years that I have, I've been playing with bands in the Inland Empire here. San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Hemet, Palm Springs, even Indio and Coachella, Perris, Pomona, Fontana, Bloomington, Corona...Saturday nights I used to go out moslty every week and earn perhaps twenty, twenty-five dollars extra...So I made that as a side work, you know, because I'd -- well, I learned how to play the guitar way back in 1927, '28." -
Anthony Victoria Oral History 2
Anthony Victoria shows the location of and discusses the BNSF intermodal facility in San Bernardino. He speaks about the company’s plans to expand into neighboring communities, and the reasons behind why some people sell their homes to the company while others are unable to, as well as the history of workers of color being exploited by industry in the inland empire. He mentions his own personal history with the pollution and environmental racism in the inland empire. -
Anthony Victoria Oral History 1
Anthony Victoria, an inland empire resident and enviromental justice advocate, discusses the railroad and warehouse industry in San Bernardino and the Inland Empire. He describes the pollution these industries put into the air, and the adverse effects pollution has on the communities of color where warehouses and railroads are built. He also advocates for a shift in the way the average person views their communities to become less consumer-driven and turn focus on decreasing emissions and challenging the large corporations exploiting their workforce. Efforts to reform the local laws and regulations in the Inland Empire, he argues, will allow for the betterment of air quality and force representatives to act in what is best for the communities, and not industry. -
Copy of Ana Carlos C0080
Ana Carlos continues to speak about the effects of warehouse expansion and companies buying up land in her town of Bloomington. She talks about homes being bought up and demolished to make room for warehouses and industrial parks. She also talks about how companies, such as Amazon, have made contributions to schools and promises to replace destroyed trees. These are attempts to gain support for their warehouses. However, Ana Carlos explains that these contributions won’t do much for Bloomington. Ana Carlos also recalls seeing similar warehouse expansion in Fontana and Riverside, all in the Inland Empire. Ana Carlos also comments on poor air quality affecting students' health, with increasing cases of Asthma. As well as the heat island effect caused by concrete. -
Ernest "Jimmy" Medina Interview
Ernest "Jimmy" Medina discusses his life growing up in the Inland Empire. Additionally, he discussed his father's involvement in the bracero program and the citrus industry. -
Lupe Sanchez Band, 1964
Color photograph of the Lupe Sanchez Band with Blas Coyazo on guitar; Hemet Califorina, New Year's Eve 1964. Blas Coyazo said: "I play the bass guitar and the electric guitar and the electric guitar so for the last fifty years also, or more, out of the eighty-three years that I have, I've been playing with bands in the Inland Empire here. San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, Hemet, Palm Springs, even Indio and Coachella, Perris, Pomona, Fontana, Bloomington, Corona...Saturday nights I used to go out mostly every week and earn perhaps twenty, twenty-five dollars extra...So I made that as a side work, you know, because I'd -- well, I learned how to play the guitar way back in 1927, '28." -
Monrovia Day Street Parade
A black and white photo of the view of the street and spectators during the Monrovia Day parade in an unknown year. On the street is a girl sitting on top of a car and behind is a man riding a mule. There is a large palm tree on the sidewalk where the onlookers are. Stores on the street can be seen behind the spectators such as Kustner's Pharmacy, a jewel, a sign that says "Sontag" and another that states "Gabriel's," but these two signs are too small in the photo to read. -
Four Young Girls
Black-and-white photo of four young girls crouching down and looking at the camera. Three out of the four girls wear sun-hats and the fourth holds hers in her hands in front of her. Two of the girls are holding bundles of grapes. -
Senora Sotelo
Black and white photo of Señora Sotelo standing in her wedding gown. -
Alfario Family Outdoors
The Alfaro family poses in their farming attire in front of a truck loaded with agricultural goods. -
Two Alfaro Children
Two young Alfaro children stand posing for a photograph. -
Alfaro Men on Tractor
Two Alfaro men drive a tractor pulling a farming plow through a field. -
Alfaro Woman Farming
An Alfaro family woman happily picks grapes on a farm. -
Two Farming Alfaros
Two Alfaro family men farming in a field. -
Three Alfaro Girls
Black and white photo of three young, casually dressed girls. -
Alfaro Family
The Alfaro family sits in front of a beat-up pickup truck in casual attire. -
Jonny Sotelo
Jonny Sotelo poses for a portrait photo wearing a suit. -
Fred and Vera Sandoval
Fred and Vera Sandoval sit eating dinner together at a restaurant. -
El Ranchito Cafe
The El Ranchito Cafe sits across the street from the vantage point of the photographer. It is a white building with small bushes along its side. -
Dario Vasquez
Dario Vasquez stands amid a forest with his arm outstretched. -
Clarence Martinez in Military Uniform
Black and white portrait of Clarence Martinez in his military uniform. -
Bermudez Family Couple
A young couple, likely a part of the Bermudez family, sit drinking together at a party. -
Bermudez Sailor Portrait
Black and white portrait of a member of the Bermudez family, posing in his U.S. sailor outfit. -
Citrus Worker
A man in farmer's overalls stands next to a young citrus tree.