11
«Reunion Cultural», El Mensajero, 14 Febrero 1941.
12
In 1938, Pedro Guerrero and his friends founded La División Juvenil Progresivo (Progressive Juvenile Division), a boy's club for Mexican American youths, and modeled it after the Hi-Y clubs of the YMCA. He hoped that the División Juvenil would help to eliminate the racism and discrimination they encountered in his community of Mesa. See Dean Smith, La Gloria Escondida: the Guerrero Story (Phoenix: Sims Publication Co., 1967) 147-159; «Sesión del Movimiento Juvenil en Mesa», El Mensajero, 9 Mayo 1941.
13
«Actividades de LULAC», El Mensajero, 22 Agosto 1941.
14
Conversation with Frank Chavez, November 15, 1999, Phoenix, Arizona.
15
Dean Smith, Tempe-Arizona's Crossroads: an Illustrated History (Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor Publications, 1990) 67-68.
16
George H. N. Luhrs, Jr., The George H. N. Luhrs Family in Phoenix and Arizona, 1847-1984 (Phoenix: Jean Stroud Crane, 1988) 65-69.
17
Dean Smith, Tempe-Arizona Crossroads: an Illustrated History (Chatsworth, Calif.: Windsor Publications, 1990) 68.
18
«Building Underway: Improving of Beach Is Started», The Collegian, 29 November 1935.
19
Solliday, Scott W., «The Journey to Rio Salado: Hispanic Migrations to Tempe, Arizona,» M. A. thesis, Arizona State University, 1993, 117 (hereafter cited as Solliday).
20
«Week's Doings», Tempe News, 31 January 1942.