The making of a civil rights leader / José Angel Gutiérrez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutiérrez, José Angel.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gutiérrez, José Angel--Childhood and youth.

Gutiérrez, José Angel.

Gutiérrez, José Angel--Family.

Mexican Americans--Texas--Crystal City--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Civil rights workers--Texas--Crystal City--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

Political activists--Texas--Crystal City--Biography.

Political activists.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--Texas--Crystal City--History--20th century.

Crystal City (Tex.)--Ethnic relations.

Crystal City (Tex.).

Crystal City (Tex.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 125 pages) : ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Piñata Books, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born in 1944, José Angel Gutiérrez grew up in a time when Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Texas and the Southwest attended separate schools and avoided public facilities and restaurants that were designated "Whites Only." Despite the limits of segregation and rural culture in Texas, the passion to learn and to educate others, as well as to undo injustice, burned in his belly from an early age. Gutiérrez offers portraits of his early influences, from his father's own pursuit of knowledge and political involvement, to his Mexican pre-school teacher's dedication to bilingual-bicultural education which did not exist in public schools at that time, and to his mother's courage and persistence, taking up migrant field work to provide for her family after the death of young Gutiérrez's father. In this intensely narrated memoir, Gutiérrez details his rise from being beaten down by racist political and agricultural interests in South Texas to his leadership role in the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Complemented by photos from his personal archives, Gutiérrez recalls his struggle for education, his early baptism in grass-roots political organizing, and his success in creating one of history's most successful third party movements, La Raza Unida Party. Along the way, Gutiérrez earned college and law degrees, as well as a Ph. D. in Political Science. He was elected or appointed to school boards, commissions, judgeships and party chairmanships, all with the single-minded purpose of extending equality to Mexican Americans and other minorities in the United States. Through his tireless efforts, he crossed paths with African American and Native American civil rights leaders, Mexican presidents, and other international figures.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Three Me's

Learning

Cooking

Professor and Lawyer

Travel

Reading and Writing

Migrants and Immigrants

Politics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781611926668

1611926661

9781611922158

1611922151

OCLC:

794492142