Interview with University of Kansas social welfare professor Elvira Ramirez about her life and work. Born in 1937, she recalls her parents' settling in Kansas City after immigration from Mexico, living in the Central Industrial District near her father's job at the Armour packing house, attending Riverview Grade School, and speaking Spanish at home. She also discusses her family's relationship with area Catholic churches, rivalries and conflict between different neighborhoods, being a minority at Wyandotte High School, and her memories of the 1951 Flood.

Interview with Harry Infante about his life and his career in architecture. Born in 1931, Infante discusses his early life in Kansas City's Westside neighborhood, businesses and neighbors in the area, memories of the 1951 flood, and his experiences with the Boy Scouts in his youth and his adulthood. He also discusses his marriage, his career in architecture, and his interest in helping develop areas of the Westside then in decline.

Interview with Josephine Lopez about her life in the Kansas City area. Born in 1915, she recounts her immigration from Mexico to the United States on foot as a toddler with her family, her father's work for the railroad, leaving school to work around the age of 12 after her father's death, and her social life in the local Mexican American community. She discusses working at the Hotel Baltimore where she met her husband, staying home with their baby during her husband's army service in World War II, moving to the Armourdale neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas in the late 1930s, and returning to Kansas City, Missouri, after the 1951 Flood. She also shares stories about going to work at Parkview Drugstore, her husband attending school and becoming a chiropractor, his work with the Department of Labor, moving to Lee's Summit, Missouri, and her and her husband's social, civic, and family activities.

Interview with Dr. Salomon Flores about his life in Kansas City, Kansas, during the Great Depression and his career. He discusses his parents' immigration to Kansas from Mexico in 1918 and growing up in La Colonia, an area of Kansas City, Kansas made up of Mexican immigrant families near Rosedale from 1928 to the 1950s. He recalls attending a segregated school, going on to attend Ottawa University, and being drafted to serve in Japan during the Korean War before returning to work as a teacher in Humboldt, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, and later moving into higher education. He also shares his recollections of the 1951 Flood, as well as thoughts about discrimination, his academic work and community activism, and his hopes for his children.

Series of interviews with Kansas City, Kansas residents of Mexican descent about daily life and the predominantly Mexican-American neighborhoods of Kansas City in Missouri and Kansas. Topics discussed include railroad, ice house, and packinghouse jobs, family life, cooking, community events and fiestas, Mexican-American baseball teams, small businesses, and encountering segregation and discrimination. Interview subjects also share stories about service in World War II, tension between speaking English and Spanish, and playing in local bands and orchestras.

Series of interviews with Kansas City, Kansas residents of Mexican descent about the 1951 Flood and its aftermath. Interview subjects recall having little time to save items from their homes or escape the flood waters, losing houses and businesses, taking refuge in locations including including Memorial Hall, Riverview School and with families in Kansas City, Missouri's West Side neighborhood, the wreckage that was left behind after water receded, and families choosing to rebuild in Kansas or permanently moving to Missouri.

Series of interviews with Kansas City, Kansas residents of Mexican descent about their family backgrounds and early history in the area. Topics discussed include life in Mexico, immigration, the Mexican Revolution, working beet harvests and at meatpacking and railroad jobs in the United States, and life in the Kansas City area, including food, housing, and family life.

Interview with UMKC chemistry professor Dr. Antonio Sandoval about his life. Born in 1931, he recalls his early childhood on a New Mexico ranch in a Mexican American community, moving to Colorado to be able to attend high school, doing agricultural work, and notes that of his graduating class of 100, he was the only one to go on to earn a PhD. He discusses his mother's hope that he would become a priest but instead majoring in chemistry, enlisting in the army where he worked to support nuclear testing at locations including Los Alamos, going on to earn his PhD from Kansas State University where he almost met his microbiologist wife, and coming to Kansas City where he was on faculty at UMKC and his wife taught at Avila, Rockhurst, and Donnelly colleges. He also discusses his participation in United Mexican American Students (UMAS) and working with his wife in the Catholic church's Marriage Encounter program.

Interview with Harry Brown about his family, childhood, and education in Kansas City, Missouri, working for the William Volker Company, and later being joining the civilian war effort by working for North American Aviation and Technicraft assembling and inspecting aircraft and aircraft components at their Fairfax Airport facilities. Mechanical aspects of the job and test flights are discussed in detail. He also discusses his day-to-day life as an adult, his rejection from the draft, and the 1951 Flood.

Interview with Alice Nast Statland about her husband Nat Nast. She recounts her husband's history, their move to Kansas City, and his desire to go into the sport shirt business, and his later shift to specializing in bowling shirts. She discusses the business's popularity through the 1950s and '60s, and diversified into caps, jackets and other promotional apparel, and was sold by the family in the early '70s. The brand was revived as Nat Nast Luxury Originals menswear line by their daughters several decades later and garnered a lot of media exposure. She also notes that original Nat Nast shirts could command two to three hundred dollars at the time of the interview.