When Christine Marin was a student worker at Arizona State University in 1968, a movement of Latino students sat at the door of ASU President Homer Durham for a few days that fall semester.
The group was quietly protesting for the addition of a research archive to document a culture that was then largely absent from academic discourse.
More than 50 years later, that collection holds the distinction of being Arizona’s first and largest archival repository of Latino history in the Southwest, and it is cared for with passion and energy by a new generation of Latino archivists. And those archivists are expanding out and reaching new students and communities, inspiring students today to become archivists.
Chicano/a Research Collection preserves Latino history in Arizona and the Southwest