The Making Of A Mexican American Mayor

Author : Mario T. García
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539030
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Mexican American Mayor written by Mario T. García and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond L. Telles was the first Mexican American mayor of a major U.S. city. Elected mayor of El Paso in 1957 and serving for two terms, he went on to become the first Mexican American ambassador in U.S. history, heading the U.S. delegation to Costa Rica. Historian Mario T. García brings Telles’s remarkable story to life in this newly updated edition of his pioneering biography, The Making of a Mexican American Mayor. In the border metropolis of El Paso, more than half the population is Mexican American, yet this group had been denied effective political representation. Mexican Americans broke this barrier and achieved the “politics of status” through Telles’s stunning 1957 victory. This book captures the excitement of that long-awaited election. The Making of a Mexican American Mayor also examines Telles’s story as a microcosm of the history of Mexican Americans before and after World War II—the Mexican American Generation. As mayor and ambassador, Telles symbolized this generation’s striving for political participation, and his legacy is evident in the growing number of Latinas/os holding office today.

Author : Mario T. García
Publisher : Texas Western Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Mexican American Mayor written by Mario T. García and published by Texas Western Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Telles was the first Mexican American mayor of El Paso, Texas, and the most significant Mexican American of his time. This book details his political career from 1948, when he won a hotly contested election for county clerk, to his ambassadorship to Costa Rica.

Author : Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Cisneros written by Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Mexican-American mayor of San Antonio, Texas, who became the first Hispanic mayor of a major United States city in 1981.

Author : Naurice Roberts
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Cisneros, Mexican-American Mayor written by Naurice Roberts and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the young Mexican American mayor of San Antonio who was considered as a candidate for Vice-President of the United States in 1984.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southwestern Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maggie Rivas-Rodríuez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292767536
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Mexican Americans & Postwar Civil Rights written by Maggie Rivas-Rodríuez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume recounts three Civil Rights victories that typify the work done by Mexican American veterans of WWII led the struggle across Texas. After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of their stories have been recorded by the Voces Oral History Project, founded and directed by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. In this volume, Rivas-Rodriguez draws upon the vast resources of the Voces Project, as well as other archives, to tell the stories of three little-known advancements in Mexican American civil rights. The first story recounts the successful effort led by parents to integrate the Alpine, Texas, public schools in 1969, fifteen years after the US Supreme Court ruled that separate schools were inherently unconstitutional. The second describes how El Paso’s first Mexican American mayor, Raymond Telles, quietly challenged institutionalized racism to integrate the city’s police and fire departments, thus opening civil service employment to Mexican Americans. The final account details the early days of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) from its incorporation in San Antonio in 1968 until its move to San Francisco in 1972.

Author : Matt S. Meier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313088608
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mexican American Experience written by Matt S. Meier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive coverage of the Mexican American experience. Entries range from figures such as Corky Gonzales, Joan Baez, and Nancy Lopez to general entries on bilingual education, assimilation, border culture, and southwestern agriculture. Court cases, politics, and events such as the Delano Grape Strike all receive full coverage, while the definitions and significance of terms such as coyote and Tejano are provided in shorter entries. Taking a historical approach, this book's topics date back to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a radical turning point for Mexican Americans, as they lost their lands and found themselves thrust into an alien social and legal system. The entries trace Mexican Americans' experience as a small, conquered minority, their growing influence in the 20th century, and the essential roles their culture plays in the borderlands, or the American Southwest, in the 21st century.

Author : Rita Petrucelli
Publisher : Rourke Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780865924314
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Cisneros written by Rita Petrucelli and published by Rourke Publishing Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the first Mexican American mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

Author : Kemper Diehl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cisneros written by Kemper Diehl and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the life and political career of Henry Cisneros and discusses his policies as mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

Author : Jos? Angel Guti?rrez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611923285
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Won't Back Down written by Jos? Angel Guti?rrez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 9, 1969, change was in the air. The small town of Crystal City, Texas would never be the same. After weeks of petitioning for a hearing with the Crystal City school board, students of Crystal City High and their parents descended on the superintendent's office. The students had been threatened with suspension and even physical violence. Powerful members of the community had insisted they would fire the parents of students if they went in front of the school board, and still, they came. Finally, the school board removed the chairs in the gallery, and the parents and students stood until members of the school board fled to avoid the confrontation. As the students and their parents stood in front of the building, a cry rose from the crowd. "Walk out. Walk out." So began the Crystal City High student walk out. At the center of the fervor was Severita Lara. Called la cabezuda, or stubborn girl, by her mother, Lara bore the mark of a leader from an early age. She was not afraid to stand up to anyone: girls or boys, teachers or superintendents. She always followed her father's advice, "If you know it's right, do it." José Angel Gutiérrez, the famous civil rights leader, chronicle's Lara's ascent from a willful child to the mayor of Crystal City. From her father's doting support to her mother's steel-rod discipline, Gutiérrez offers a detailed portrait of the early family life of the woman whose continuing struggle against segregation and discrimination began while she was still a high school student in Crystal City. He also follows her attempts as a single mother to achieve her dream of being a doctor and providing for her sons. This is the story of la cabezuda, Severita Lara, who has made an indelible imprint on American history. JOSÉ ANGEL GUTIÉRREZ is the author of a memoir for young adults The Making of a Civil Rights Leader: José Angel Gutiérrez (Piñata Books, 2005); two works of social commentary, A Chicano Manual on How to Handle Gringos (Arte Público Press, 2003) and A Gringo Manual on How to Handle Mexicans (Arte Público Press, 1998); and a memoir for adults, The Making of a Chicano Militant (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998). He is the editor and translator of Reies López Tijerina's autobiography, They Called Me King Tiger (Arte Público Press, 2000). The founder and former director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, he is a professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. He also practices law in Dallas, Texas, where he lives with his family.