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Chicano Resources: People

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Authors

Acosta, Oscar Zeta                           

Mendez, Miguel M.

Anaya, Rudolfo                                   

Paredes, Americo

Baca, Jimmy Santiago                        

Ramos, Manuel

Bertrand, Diane Gonzalez                   

Rechy, John

Cisneros, Sandra                                

Rivera, Tomas

Dagoberto, Gil                                   

Saenz, Benjamin Alire

Gonzalez, Rigoberto                         

Suarez, Marie

Granados, Christine                           

Urrea, Luis Alberto

Islas, Arturo                                     

Yanez, Richard

Martin, Patricia Preciado                   

Vasquez, Richard

Source: Great Lives from History: Latinos, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Activists

Lupe Anguiano – civil rights activist

Norma V. Cantu – civil rights lawyer and college professor

Carlos Cadena – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case

Aurora Castillo – environmental activist

Sal Castro – civil rights activist and educator

Ernesto Chacon – Latino and low income civil rights activist

César Chávez(1927–1993) – labor leader and activist

Linda Chavez-Thompson – former executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO

Miguel Contreras – labor leader

Bert Corona – labor and community organizer

Ricardo Cruz – attorney, civil rights activist

Maria Echaveste – former White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress

Josefina Fierro de Bright – civil rights activist during The Great Depression

Gustavo C. Garcia – attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas supreme court case

Rodolfo Gonzales — leader of the Chicano civil rights movement

José Ángel Gutiérrez — political activist, founder of the Raza Unida party, writer, and professor

John J. Herrera – civil rights leader

Dolores Huerta – civil rights leader

Nativo Lopez – civil rights activist

Mimi Lozano – co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research

Angel G. Luévano – labor leader and activist

Janet Murguía – civil rights activist

Alex Pacheco, activist

Olga Talamante – political activist

Emma Tenayuca – labor organizer

Reies López Tijerina – activist, founder of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes

Baldemar Velasquez – president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee

Raul Yzaguirre – civil rights activis

Source: Great Lives from History: Latinos, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

 

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