Luz Alvarez Martinez papers
Scope and Contents
The Luz Alvarez Martinez Papers consist of biographical information including an interview, photographs, audiovisual materials, and memorabilia documenting her life, family, and friends. There are also materials that document leadership role in fostering the health and well-being of minority women such as photographs of women's gatherings and ritual celebrations, conference materials, photographs, publications, and memorabilia. Records and photographs document her activism with the National Latina Health Organization, including the Board of Directors files and program files, posters, artwork, and photomontages; and her work with the Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
Dates of Materials
- Creation: 1978 - 2007
Creator
- Martinez, Luz Alvarez (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.
Conditions Governing Use
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright to the unpublished works in this collection by Luz Alvarez Martinez. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Copyright to materials authored by others may be owned by those individuals or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Biographical / Historical
Luz Alvarez Martinez grew up in a California farmworker family that worked the fields in Fremont, Gilroy and Santa Rosa. She was an early supporter of the United Farm Workers, and a feminist and environmentalist. In 1986, she co-founded the National Latina Health Organization in Oakland, CA, and served as its Executive Director until 2005. In 1997, she also co-founded SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. She has also served on the Minority Women's Health Panel of Experts of the National Office of Women's Health (1997-2005), and on the Women's Health Council of the Office of Women's Health of the State of California since 1997. Martinez has four sons and three grandchildren. Since 1993 she has been an Aztec ceremonial dancer.
Extent
13.563 linear feet (14 containers)
0.0205 Gigabytes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Health reformer. Papers document Luz Martinez's personal life through an interview, photographs, audiovisual materials, and memorabilia. There are also materials that document her leadership role in fostering the health and well-being of minority women and records and photographs of her activism with the National Latina Health Organization include Board files, program files, posters, artwork, and photomontages; and her work with the Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective.
Arrangement
This collection has been added to over time in multiple "accessions." An accession is a group of materials received from the same source at approximately the same time.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
This collection contains materials received from the donor in digital form that are not currently available online. Please consult with Special Collections staff to request access to this digital content.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
As a preservation measure, researchers must use digital copies of audiovisual materials in this collection. Please consult with Special Collections staff or email specialcollections@smith.edu to request the creation of and access to digital copies.
Other Finding Aids
One or more content listings to individual accessions in this collection are available for download. Links can be found in the description of the individual accessions.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Luz Alvarez Martinez, 2008-2009.
Processing Information
Accessioned by Burd Schlessinger, July 2008
Processing Information
The contents of all computer media in this collection has been copied to networked storage for preservation and access; the original directory and file structure was retained and file lists were created.
Processing Information
Between September 2022 and February 2023, Smith College Special Collections renumbered many boxes to eliminate duplicate numbers within collections in order to improve researcher experience. The following changes were made in this collection: Accession 2008-S-0054, Box 1 renumbered as Box 13
Subject
- Martinez, Luz Alvarez (Person)
- National Latina Health Organization (Organization)
- SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective (Organization)
Source
- Martinez, Luz Alvarez (Donor, Person)
Genre / Form
- Business cards
- CD-Roms
- Computer media
- Interviews
- Writings
- articles
- correspondence
- notebooks
- photographs
Topical
- Title
- Luz Alvarez Martinez papers
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 07/26/2017: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2017-07-26T17:48:21-04:00: This record was migrated from InMagic DB Textworks to ArchivesSpace.
- 2020-04-14: Description added for born-digital content.
Repository Details
Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository
