Box 53
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Report - Ethnic Isolation of Mexican Americans in the Public Schools of the Southwest, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Mexican American Education Study,, August 1970
File — Box: 53, Folder: 26
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Reies Lopez Tijerina Papers document Tijerina's career as a Chicano activist in New Mexico with the bulk of the collection reflecting his activities from 1963-1978. Tijerina is most remembered for his June 5, 1967 raid on the Rio Arriba County Courthouse in Tierra Amarilla and the ensuing trial in which he defended himself to a 'not guilty' verdict. The majority of the collection consists of the records of the land grant organization that he founded in 1963, the Alianza Federal...
Dates:
August 1970