Title Texas Mexican Americans and postwar civil rights / Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Integration a Mordidas in Alpine schools -- The multistep integration of the El Paso police department -- MALDEF : born into the crosswinds of the Chicano movement Summary 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 (formerly the U.S. Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project), founded and directed by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. In this volume, she draws upon the vast resources of the Voces Project, as well as archives in other parts of the country, to tell the stories of three little-known advancements in Mexican American civil rights. The first two stories recount local civil rights efforts that typified the grassroots activism of Mexican Americans across the Southwest. One records the successful effort led by parents to integrate the Alpine, Texas, public schools in 1969--fifteen years after the U.S. 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 provides the first history of the early days of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and its founder, Pete Tijerina Jr., from MALDEF's incorporation in San Antonio in 1968 until its move to San Francisco in 1972. -- Back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund -- History SUBJECT Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund fast Subject Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas School integration -- Texas -- Alpine Discrimination in employment -- Texas -- El Paso Police -- Employment -- Texas -- El Paso Race discrimination -- Texas POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies Discrimination in employment Mexican Americans -- Civil rights Police -- Employment Race discrimination Race relations School integration SUBJECT Texas -- Race relations Subject Texas Texas -- Alpine Texas -- El Paso Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0292767544 9780292767546 9780292767539 0292767536

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