| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 396 pages) : illustrations |
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The Hispanic civil rights series |
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Hispanic civil rights series
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| Contents |
""Foreword""; ""Editor's Note""; ""Author's Note and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Chapter 11""; ""Chapter 12""; ""Chapter 13""; ""Chapter 14""; ""Chapter 15""; ""Chapter 16""; ""Chapter 17""; ""Chapter 18""; ""Chapter 19""; ""Chapter 20""; ""Chapter 21""; ""Chapter 22""; ""Chapter 23""; ""Epilogue"" |
| Summary |
"William C. 'Willie' Velásquez Jr. founded the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project (SVREP) and was an influential participant in other leading Latino rights and justice groups, including the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC). From the late 1960s until his untimely death in 1988, Velásquez helped Mexican Americans and other Hispanics become active participants in American political life. Though still insufficiently appreciated, Velásquez holds a unique status in the pantheon of modern American civil rights figures. This critical biography features an introduction by Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Former Rhodes Scholar and Velásquez protégé Juan A. Sepúlveda Jr.'s biography of the man provides a first, definitive glimpse into his life and times. Based on Sepúlveda's close personal relationship and exchanges with Velásquez during the SVREP founder's final years, and over a dozen years of research and writing, the book chronicles Velásquez's influences, his landmark contributions to American civic culture, and his enduring legacy. This is the story of both parts of the man: the public and the private. Velásquez's biography sheds light on the nature and price of public leadership in American politics."-- Provided by publisher |
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"Velasquez's work on voter rights and registration triggered an unprecedented mobilization of Latino voters in pivotal electoral states across the United States, including California, Illinois, and Texas. Today, as Latinos emerge to constitute America's new minority of record, with growing reach into other major states, such as New York, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, and North Carolina, Hispanic-American political influence - drawing on Velasquez's legacy - can only become more significant in the years to come."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| 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 |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Velázquez, Willie
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| SUBJECT |
Velásquez, Willie fast |
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Mexican Americans -- Biography
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
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Political activists -- United States -- Biography
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Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
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Mexican Americans -- Suffrage -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century
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Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
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Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Civil rights workers
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Ethnic relations
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Hispanic Americans -- Civil rights
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Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government
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Mexican Americans
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Mexican Americans -- Civil rights
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Mexican Americans -- Suffrage
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Political activists
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Politics and government
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Southwest, New -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Southwest, New -- Ethnic relations
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New Southwest
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cisneros, Henry, writer of foreword
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Ramos, Henry A. J., 1959- editor
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| LC no. |
2003050044 |
| ISBN |
9781611922066 |
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1611922062 |
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9781611926248 |
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1611926246 |
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