Chicana Tributes

Activist Women of the Civil Rights Movement - Stories for the New Generation

Author: Rita Sanchez
Secondary Author: Sonia Lopez
ISBN: 9780744226348

This book documents the experiences of sixty-one women who flourished in the ferment of the civil/ethnic/women's rights movements of the late twentieth century and beyond. While each life is unique, collectively they demonstrate the benefits gained when a community and a society unleashes and fosters the potential of women who create, organize, and lead. Conversely, an undetermined degree of loss may accrue to societies that suppress or discourage the freedom of women to shape their destinies. When women come together with a collective intention, powerful things happen. Simultaneously, but separately, in 1972-73, at San Diego State University and at Stanford University, and having never met, two of us had the same idea, to propose and design a course about Mexican American women. The idea for this book also has a history. In those days, both of us wanted to contribute to the development of Chicano studies. The Mexican American voice, so much a fabric of U.S. history was missing from t

Publisher: Montezuma Publishing
Publish Date: 2017-06-07

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: LatinX/ChicanX American )