Independent Voices is a collaborative digitization project featuring newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals drawn from dozens of special collections and archives, including the University of Arkansas Libraries’ Special Collections. This open access collection, freely available to all, chronicles the 1960s, 70s, and 80s through publications from the far left to the extreme right.
The collection is organized in series representing the following groups or topics:
- Black American
- Campus underground
- Feminist
- GI press
- LGBT
- Latino
- Little magazine
- Native American
- Right-wing organizations
- Student activist groups
The “Latino” section offers more than 30 titles, most drawn from the collections of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at he University of Texas. These publications are not well represented in archives and so often only a handful of issues are available. Unlike those in Ethnic NewsWatch, these publications are digitized cover-to-cover and the digital facsimiles offer photographs, cartoons and other illustrations, advertisements, and the original article layout. The full text of articles has been transcribed and is searchable by keyword across the collection. Create a personal account and log in to add notes or to help correct the text transcripts.
Some of the Latinx titles included in Independent Voices include:
El Paisano, Tolleson, Arizona, 1968
“Para el Compesino.” Only three issues are preserved in this collection, but they offer fascinating articles, editorials, and photos on farm worker organizing, in Spanish and English.
El Diario de la Gente. Boulder, Colorado, May 1973 – June 1981
Produced by the United Mexican-American Students of the University of Colorado, this English-language magazine covered campus, local, and national politics and social issues such as poverty, economic boycotts, immigration, the American Indian Movement, and apartheid in South Africa.
El Grito del Norte, Espanola and Las Vegas, New Mexico . August 1968 – July 1973
In English and Spanish, this bi-monthly offered original reporting and editorials on topics such as the 1968 Democratic convention, antiwar protests, the Brown Berets, policing and criminal justice, and Native American rights, in addition to farm worker struggles.
Voz Fronteriza, La Jolla, California, January 1976 – January 1994
This monthly from the California State University , San Diego, was especially long-lived and offers in-depth essays and coverage of issues such as bi-lingual education, feminism, economic activism, U.S. intervention in Central America, and immigration policy.