Refusing to Forget History Harvest (2018)
The Refusing to Forget Project, along with UTRGV Mexican American Studies Program, hosted a series of events to commemorate the unveiling of a historical maker that recognizes the violence done to Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley from 1910-1920 in October/November 2018.
The events commemorated the deaths of Jesus Bazán and his son-in-law, Antonio Longoria, at the hands of Texas Rangers as they rode their horses along a dirt road near their ranch outside of Edinburg.
The University Library hosted Harvest Days from noon to 5 p.m., and encouraged families to bring in historic photos, letters, diaries and other documents related to the early 1900s. Special Collections Library staff and volunteers scanned these items on the spot and returned them to visitors. The library retained digital copies of the scans. Participants were also invited to conduct oral history interviews.
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Photograph of the Bazan family
Black and white photograph. Members of the Bazan family posing on a bridge. From left to right: unidentified woman, unidentified child, unidentified child, unidentified woman, unidentified man, unidentified child, unidentified man, unidentified woman, and an unidentified man.
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Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored Violence program
Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored Violence program. Pamphlet includes list of activities and names of Refusing to Forget members.
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Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored Violence - Texas state historical marker unveiling ceremony program
Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored Violence - Texas state historical marker unveiling ceremony program for the double murder of Jesus Bazan and his son-in-law, Antonio Longoria, on September 27, 1915 along a dirt road near their ranch outside of Edinburg. Program includes list of presenters and topic of speeches.
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Resilience en el Valle: Remembering Bazan y Longoria and Reckoning with a Century of State Sponsored Violence
Janie Camero
Poster includes list of events and sponsors.
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Bazan Family Reunion 2006 invitation, program, list of committee members, and Mission Historical Museum's President's Pioneer Award Presentation for Antonia Bazan Longoria
Bazan Family Reunion 2006 invitation, program, list of committee members, and Mission Historical Museum's President's Pioneer Award Presentation for Antonia Bazan Longoria with a biographical information and three photographs including the house at El Campo Ranch.
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Bazan Family Reunion 2006 photography album
Black and white photographs. Members of the Bazan family include: Jose Bazan's great grandsons and Abelardo and Rosa Bazan's grandsons, Jose, Pablo and Nicasio Bazan, Epigmenia Trevino Bazan, Santos Bazan, Josefa Bazan, Prajedis Alaniz Bazan, Pilar Bazan Jr., Stella Bazan, Andrea A., Maribel Bazan, Berta Bazan, America Bazan, Pete Bazan family, Melchora Bazan, Elvira and Miguel Bazan, Victor Bazan Silva with great nephews and nieces, Eulogio Bazan, Prajedis Bazan, Jose and Feliciana Garza Bazan, Melchora and Albino Bazan, Abelardo and Rosa Bazan's nine great grandchildren, Eulogio Bazan, Guadalupe Montalvo Bazan, Luisa B. Cavazos, Petra Bazan, Josefa Bazan, Miguel Bazan (WWII veteran), Elvira M. Bazan, Melchora Bazan, Barney Saldana, Elida Bazan, Albino Bazan, Miguel Bazan, Elvira Bazan, Simon Bazan, Elboria Bazan, Liboria Bazan, Edward Bazan Jr., Eduardo Bazan, and Abelardo Bazan.
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100 handwritten get-well letters to Manuela "Mela" Solis
100 handwritten get-well letters to Manuela "Mela" Solis. Messages include poems, lyrics, photographs, and best wishes.
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Photographs of the Bazan family
Four black and white photographs of the Bazan family. Top left photograph; from left to right: Teresita Villarreal Bazan Flores, Epigmania Trevino Bazan, Antonio Bazan Longoria, Minerva Longoria Bazan, Maria Cristina Bazan Rodriguez, Laure Bazan Rodriguez Lopez Hinojosa, Elida Bazan Saldana, and Josefa Bazan Rocha.
The three other photographs are without captions. Top right photograph; a photograph of a young woman and her father; Middle left; an elderly lady sitting on a rocking chair on a porch; bottom left; four sisters posing with either a mother or grandmother.
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Hidalgo County marriage license no. 705 of Alfredo Rodriguez and Maria Petra Bazan
Hidalgo County marriage license no. 705 of Alfredo Rodriguez and Maria Petra Bazan.
