Publication Date
2020
Collection
Capstones
Contributor
David Moreno, Jerry Guevara, Reynaldo Nerio, Willie Chacon, Johnny Zepeda, Mark Nerio
Advisor
Lindsey Wieck, Gerald E. Poyo, David McKenzie (Ford's Theatre)
Description
The Prospect Hill Yellow Jackets Athletic Club was an important institution in San Antonio’s West Side in the 1960’s. It was a vehicle through which the emerging Mexican American middle-class families integrated and acculturated into the American mainstream. Using images, maps, archival photographs, newspaper articles, obituaries, and oral histories, this project presents evidence on how organized youth sports played a major role in helping shape and define the identity of a Mexican American community in San Antonio and provided the foundation that spawned an engaged generation of achievers.
Keywords
Prospect Hill Yellow Jackets Athletic Club, Yellow Jackets, Mexican American, baseball, Westside, digital project
Document Type
Article
Medium
manuscript, digital exhibit
Format
Size or Duration
35 pages
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Publisher
Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
City
San Antonio, Texas