By Maria E. Garcia
The history of Neighborhood House would be incomplete without an article devoted to Lupita Evers. She appears briefly but often in the interviews I have conducted. Lupita is remembered for what made her different, for the qualities that set her apart from other people.
Lupita was born in Mexico on December 31, 1898. Her father, Herman Evers, was born in Germany. Her mother, Antonia Ochoa, was born in Mexico. Lupita came to Logan Heights as a child and grew up there. Nothing about her family history was out of the ordinary at that time in Logan Heights. But Lupita came into the world as a little person–she was born with the genetic condition of dwarfism. This condition was viewed in a far different way than would be considered acceptable today. [Read more…]