LibGuides: Latinx History in the Quad-Cities: Home

Primary Sources at the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center

Iowa Stories 2000 Oral History Project: Mexican Americans
Call Number: RSSC Center: Acc.#2005-02 Range 35 Sections 01 & 02
Videorecordings of interviews with Mexican American residents in the QCA by students at the Davenport Intermediate Schools and accompanying exhibit materials.
--- Related blog entry: "Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2017" (Sept. 2017)
Cook's Point Reunion Exhibit Materials
Call Number: RSSC Center: Acc.#2016-12 Range 42 Section 09
Materials exhibited at the reunions of residents of Cook's Point, a Mexican American neighborhood in Davenport.
--- Related blog entry: "A Snapshot of Cook's Point" (October 2016)
Cook's Point Images, 1940s-1950s
Call Number: RSSC Center: Acc.#2016-39 Range 44 Section 02 (Box 3) and Range 44 Section 01 (Box 4)
Davenport Civil Rights Commission files
Call Number: RSSC Center: Acc.#2005-13 Range 14 Section 02
Files of the Human Relations Commission, 1962-1968 and newspaper clippings, 1980s-1990s.
Mayor Bill Gluba papers
Call Number: RSSC Center: Acc.#2015-38 Range 33 Section 06-08
Includes Mayor Gluba's files on the Hispanic population in Davenport and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 2008-2016.
LULAC Plan for the Future 2020 by the League of United Latin American Citizens
Call Number: RSSC Center: Ephemera--Organizations
Brochure listing "LULAC Strategic Priorities."
Bettendorf News, June 28, 1978: “Diamond Jubilee 1903-1979”
Call Number: RSSC Center: Map Case 02 Drawer 09
Includes an article on the history of Holy City in Bettendorf.
¡Hola! America: English/Spanish newspaper (2001-2012)
Call Number: RSSC Center: SC MAGAZINE AREA

Primary Sources at the Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council 10 (Davenport, Iowa) records
Materials documenting the civil rights activism and cultural heritage activities of the Davenport council.
Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection by Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries
Digitized papers and photographs of Latina women in Iowa, including those from Davenport and Bettendorf.

Secondary Sources at RiverShare Libraries and Online

DVD: Stories from the Barrio: Quad Cities Mexican Heritage (2011) by the Putnam Museum
Call Number: DVD 977.769 STORIES
Iowa Pathways: Hispanic History (2002) by Iowa Public Broadcasting
The Mexican American communities of Holy City, Bettendorf, and Cook's Point, Davenport are featured in this Iowa PBS program segment.
Migration is Beautiful by the Iowa Women's Archives
Digital exhibit featuring residents of Cook's Point, Davenport, Holy City, Bettendorf, and La Yarda, Silvis, IL.
"From Barrio to 'Boicoteo!': The Emergence of Mexican American Activism in Davenport, 1917-1970," Annals of Iowa, Vol. 68 (2009) by Janet Weaver
"Racializing Mexican Immigrants in Iowa's Early Mexican Communities," Annals of Iowa, Vol. 75 (2016) by Omar Valerio-Jiménez
"From Alabama to the Barrio: Ernest Rodriguez and the Fight Against Racism in Iowa" (2020)
Blog post by Heather Cooper of Iowa Women's Archives on Ernest Rodriguez of Bettendorf.
Bettendorf: the First Century (2003) by Kristen D. Schipper
Call Number: 977.769 SCH
Includes information on Holy City, a Mexican American neighborhood in Bettendorf.

Resources about "Hero Street" in Silvis, Illinois

"Silvis Street Gives Up 8 For Freedom" by John Poinciano
Call Number: RSSC Center: Ephemera--Landmarks
First published in Labor's Daily (Rock Island, Ill.) September 1954, also in Spanish in Nuestras Voces and El Hispano.
"Hero Street, USA" (June 2005) by Guadelupe L. "Sonny" Soliz
Call Number: RSSC Center: Ephemera--Landmarks
Article by former president of the Hero Street Monument Committee.
"Hero Street, USA: A Monument for a Cherished Place" by the Hero Street Monument Committee
Call Number: RSSC Center: Ephemera--Landmarks
Fundraising brochure.
Hero Street, U.S.A.: the Story of Little Mexico's Fallen Soldiers (2009) by Marc Wilson
Call Number: 940.5467 WIL
DVD: Hero Street USA: Silvis, IL (2006) by WGN-TV, Chicago
Call Number: DVD 940.5404 Her
DVD: Letters Home to Hero Street (2015) by Fourth Wall Films
Call Number: DVD 929.2 LETTERS