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Author Orozco, Cynthia, author.

Title Agent of change : Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist / Cynthia E. Orozco
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages)
Contents Civil rights leader, public intellectual, and feminist -- The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1920- -- The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1950- -- The Chicano Movement of 1963-1978 and beyond -- Feminist in the gendered Mexican American Civil Rights movement -- Public Intellectual -- Democrat in the United States and Democrat for Mexico -- Conclusion
Summary "The first comprehensive biography of Sloss-Vento, an essayist and activist in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the male-dominated Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Sloss-Vento, Adela
Women political activists -- Texas -- Biography
Mexican American women authors -- Biography
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Women civil rights workers -- Texas -- Biography
HISTORY / General
Mexican American women authors
Mexican Americans -- Civil rights
Women civil rights workers
Women political activists
Texas
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1477319883
9781477319888