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We won't back down : Severita Lara's rise from student leader to mayor / Jose Angel Gutierrez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gutiérrez, José Angel.
- Series:
- Hispanic civil rights series.
- Hispanic civil rights series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lara, Severita, 1952-.
- Lara, Severita.
- Civil rights movements--Texas--Crystal City--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Mayors--Texas--Crystal City--Biography.
- Mayors.
- Mexican American women--Texas--Crystal City--Biography.
- Mexican American women.
- Mexican Americans--Civil rights--Texas--Crystal City--History--20th century.
- Mexican Americans.
- Student movements--Texas--Crystal City--History--20th century.
- Student movements.
- Women mayors--Texas--Crystal City--Biography.
- Women mayors.
- Crystal City (Tex.)--Biography.
- Crystal City (Tex.).
- Crystal City (Tex.)--Ethnic relations.
- Crystal City (Tex.)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (144 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Tex. : Pinata Books, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Civil rights leader Jose Gutierrez chronicles the life of Severita Lara, a little-known female activist in the Hispanic Civil Rights Movement. Lara's ascent from a willful child to the mayor of Crystal City, Texas all began with the Crystal City High student walkout in 1969.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-61192-328-X
- OCLC:
- 794492152
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