José Gómez papers

Collection

Identifier: PP-06

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The José Gómez papers collection contains materials from his work at The Evergreen State College (1966-2014). The collection also includes documents relating to his personal work with the United Farm Workers, César Chávez, Harvard, and La Raza Centro Legal. The United Farm Workers materials include two video cassettes: 'Realizing Cesar Chavez's Dream (Realizando el Sueno de Cesar Chavez)' the English version of "No Grapes." His personal papers also include his biography, FBI dossier, curriculam vitae, and personal correspondence. The second series of the collection documenting his deanship from 1990-1995.

Dates

Creation: 1966 - 2014

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to the public and must be viewed in The Evergreen State College Archives and Special Collections reading room.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright in the collection materials may not lie with The Evergreen State College. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Evergreen State College Archives and Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and does not extend to any copyright holders in the materials. Researchers are solely responsible for clearing any necessary copyright permissions.

Biographical / Historical

Before becoming a faculty member at Evergreen, José Gómez (1943-2014) founded the Committee on Gay Legal Issues (COGLI) at Harvard Law School, and acted as an executive assistant to César Chávez, president of the United Farm Workers. Gómez was also the first openly gay candidate elected to the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1983, as well as the Executive Director of the Human Rights Foundation in San Francisco. Starting in 1983, he served as Executive Director of the La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco before joining Evergreen in 1988 as a dean. He served as dean from 1988-1996 after which he joined the Evergreen faculty and taught law at the college until his death in 2014.