Oral history interview, Mr. and Mrs. Emerenciano Bernal, 1977 (audio and transcript)

Beet work; housing; Depression; care of old people; education; death of parents in 1918 from influenza; medical care; use of Spanish; work in coal mine, mill, and building houses; own business disposing of garbage; children in Navy in WW II; housing; church in Denver; social life; importance of bilingual education; racial/ethnic mixing; abduction of girls in Texas;
ID: 
BCLHP-MKM-058
Date: 
1977
Time Period: 
1900-1919
1920s-30s
1940s
1950s-1965
1966-1970s
Keywords: 
Beet work; Depression; old people; influenza of 1918; coal mining; construction; trash collection; Navy; WW II; bilingual education; abduction of children
People Shown or Mentioned: 
Emerenciano Bernal; Mrs. Emerenciano Bernal
Location of Original: 
Maria Rogers Oral History Program at Carnegie Branch Library for Local History, Boulder Public Library
Producer: 
Boulder's Chicano Community Project
Interviewer/Narrator: 
Jessie Velez Lehmann