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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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Alfonso J. Cervantes, Mayor of St. Louis
Alfonso J. Cervantes of St. Louis, served as the first big-city mayor of Hispanic origin in the U.S. Continue reading
Raúl H. Castro, Arizona Governor and U.S. Ambassador
Adversity Is My Angel is a highly accessible, well-crafted, and timeless volume that profiles Raul Castro, Arizona’s only Mexican American governor, and a United States ambassador appointed by presidents Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter. Continue reading