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The Mexican American Youth Organization (acronym MAYO, also described as the Mexican Youth Organization [1]) is a civil rights organization formed in 1967 in San Antonio, Texas, USA to fight for Mexican-American rights.
José Angel Gutiérrez, is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States.He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party, a Mexican-American third party movement that supported candidates for elective office in Texas, California, and other ...
The most widely known and accepted story is that the La Raza Unida Party was established on January 17, 1970, at a meeting of some 300 Mexican-Americans in Crystal City, Texas by José Ángel Gutiérrez and Mario Compean, who had also helped in the foundation of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in 1967. In Lubbock, the youth ...
LULAC is the largest and longest-lasting Latino civil rights group in the country. The LULAC addressed the needs of Mexican American middle-class men who wanted to combat racism, which stood in the way of community empowerment. [6] The LULAC was the first organization of Mexican-Descent to emphasize U.S. citizenship.
The Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), a civil rights organization, had a conference in 1969 and made a plan to make Jacinto Treviño College in Mercedes, Texas. [3] The concept was initially presented at a plenary session of the Mexican American Youth Organization holding its annual statewide meeting at La Lomita, a building which had ...
Velasquez was born to William and María Luisa (née Cardenas) Velásquez, who were Mexican Americans. His father was stationed in Florida during World War II where he worked as a union organizer. He attended St. Mary's University where in 1967, he helped form the Mexican American Youth Organization and later
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Reies López Tijerina (September 21, 1926 – January 19, 2015), was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. [1]