Agent of change Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist

The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901 -- 1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. At last presenting the full story of Sloss-Vento's a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Orozco, Cynthia E.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Civil rights leader, public intellectual, and feminist
  • The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1920-1950
  • The Mexican American Civil Rights movement, 1950-1963
  • 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.