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California Politics: Shifting Majorities, Emerging Minorities

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Ken

New book, California Politics: Shifting Majorities, Emerging Minorities, includes an essay on Latino politics by Kenneth Burt. Continue reading →

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Richard Chavez, 1929–2011

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Ken

Richard Chavez helped lead the United Farm Workers. He first developed his organizing skills with the Community Services Organization in the 1950s. Continue reading →

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The Latino Democratic Trail Stretches Way Back

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Ken

Several years back I came across a 1932 letter on the stationery of the Democratic State Central Committee’s Roosevelt-Garner-McAdoo campaign headquarters in Los Angeles that included photographs of Franklin Roosevelt, John Garner, William McAdoo and the names of the state’s … Continue reading →

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