Testimonio : a documentary history of the Mexican American struggle for civil rights /
edited by F. Arturo Rosales.
- 1 online resource.
- The Hispanic civil rights series .
- Hispanic civil rights series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nineteenth-Century Mexican in the Southwest and civil rights -- "The brown scare" : the Mexican Revolution as a source of conflict -- World War I and massive immigration in the 1920s -- Immigrant mobilization -- Mexican government and EI Medico de Afuera -- Mexican American mobilization -- Defense in the workplace -- Catalysts of the Chicano movement : farm worker organizers and land grant crusaders -- Chicanismo, youth, and La Raza Unida Party.
Historical documents help chronicle the struggle of Mexican Americans for equal civil rights in the United States from the early 1800s through the modern era, with individual prefaces for each document and suggestions for further reading.
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Mexican Americans--Civil rights--History--Sources. Civil rights movements--History--United States--Sources.