The Making of a Civil Rights Leader: Jose Angel Gutierrez (Hispanic Civil Rights (Paperback))

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Born in 1944, Jose Angel Gutierrez grew up in a time when Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas and the Southwest attended separate schools and have shyed away from public facilities and restaurants that were designated Whites Only. In spite of the limits of segregation and rural culture in Texas, the passion to be informed and to educate others, in addition to to undo injustice, burned in his belly from an early age. Gutierrez offers portraits of his early influences, from his father’s own pursuit of knowledge and political involvement, to his Mexican pre-school teacher’s interest in bilingual-bicultural education which didn’t exist in public schools at the moment, and to his mother’s courage and persistence, taking up migrant field work to provide for her circle of relatives after the death of young Gutierrez’s father. In this intensely narrated memoir, Gutierrez details his rise from being beaten down by racist political and agricultural interests in South Texas to his leadership role in the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Complemented by photos from his personal archives, Gutierrez recalls his struggle for education, his early baptism in grass-roots political organizing, and his success in creating one among history’s most successful third party movements, La Raza Unida Party. Along the way, Gutierrez earned college and law degrees, in addition to a Ph.D. in Political Science. He was once elected or appointed to school boards, commissions, judgeships and party chairmanships, all with the single-minded purpose of extending equality to Mexican Americans and other minorities in the USA. Through his tireless efforts, he crossed paths with African American and Native American civil rights leaders, Mexican presidents, and other international figures.

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