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Clinton Jencks and Mexican American Miners in New Mexico
A bool review for James J. Lorence’s Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest. Jencks is credited for empowering subjugated Mexican American hard-rock miners in Grant County, New Mexico. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Southwest, Unions
Tagged CIO, Cold War, Communist Party, Henry Wallace, IUMMSW
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Book Review: Bridges of Reform
Shana Bernstein’s Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles is reviewed. It includes a focus on the Community Service Organization. Continue reading
Posted in Books, California
Tagged ANMA, Cold War, Communist Party, CSO, El Congreso, Roybal
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Luisa Moreno’s 1949 Address to California CIO
Luisa Moreno was the highest profile Latina in the labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Facing deportation for her leftist views, she addressed the 1949 California CIO Council. Here speech is reprinted here. Continue reading
Posted in Activist Profiles, California, Northeast, South, Southwest, Unions
Tagged CIO, CMIU, Cold War, ILGWU, UCAPAWA/FTA
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