Manzo Council

• Las Mujeres de Manzo is an immigration activist group whose collective efforts have augmented many of the international human rights activities in our southwest border area.
• The Manzo Area Council became the first community-based organization authorized to prepare immigration documents and represent people in immigration court.
• Beginning in the 1970s, Guadalupe Castillo, Margo Cowan, Isabel Garcia, and Raquel Rubio Goldsmith came together at the Manzo Area Council, a War-on-Poverty funded program that President Johnson began, and became known as Manzo Area Council, a social services center and community hub for addressing the discrimination against the Tucson’s Westside largely Mexican population.
• Organized to do advocacy work, to teach community.

Articles and Papers

(pdf) El Concilio Manzo (Late 1977-78)
(pdf) Garcia, Refugees or Economic Migrants
(link) Sanctuary Movement Trial papers (1979-1992)
This is a link to the University of Arizona library archives.
Abstract: The Sanctuary Movement was a religious and political campaign that began in the early 1980s to provide safety for Central American refugees fleeing civil conflicts within their home countries. This collection contains materials related to the Sanctuary Movement and, more specifically, the highly publicized Sanctuary Trial that took place in Arizona. Within the collection are attorney files, certified trial transcripts, publicity materials, and trial notebooks. Also represented in the collection are donated materials from the American Friends Service Committee and the Southside Presbyterian Church, who were important players in the Sanctuary Movement. Materials from these organizations include correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications and trial materials.

Video

(YouTube link) Civil Rights in the Mexican American Community, Special Collections (from 4/2013) Description: The final program of the Civil Rights in Arizona Lecture Series, Lupe Castillo, Professor, Pima Community College and Margo Cowan, Public Defender, Pima County, led a discussion exploring civil rights in Tucson’s Mexican American community.