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No Mexicans, women, or dogs allowed : the rise of the Mexican American civil rights movement /

"Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano nationalist standards of the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the personal papers of Alonso S. Perales and Adela Slo...

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Main Author: Orozco, Cynthia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Subjects:
League of United Latin American Citizens > History.
Order of Sons of America > History.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > Texas > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Texas > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Social conditions > 20th century.
Mexican American women > Texas > Social conditions > 20th century.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780292793439
029279343X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Society and Ideology
  • The Mexican colony of South Texas
  • Ideological origins of the movement
  • Part Two. Politics
  • Rise of a movement
  • Founding fathers
  • The Harlingen Convention of 1927 : no Mexicans allowed
  • LULAC's founding
  • Part Three. Theory and Methodology
  • The Mexican American civil rights movement
  • No women allowed?

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