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George I. Sanchez was the first executive director of the council. Sanches and the council were dedicated to desegregating schools. In 1952 the council joined the Alianza Hispano-Americana and filed several lawsuits against Arizona school districts, which continued to practice school segregation. [10]
One such association included Alianza Hispano-Americana, which, founded in 1894 in Tucson, Arizona Territory, had 88 chapters throughout the Southwestern United States by 1919. Usually mutualistas had separate women's auxiliaries, but some, including Club Femenino Orquidia in San Antonio, Texas and Sociedad Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez in Laredo ...
Major groups that were once dedicated to combating social problems faced by Mexican Americans such as League of United Latin American Citizens, which experienced a turbulent decade in the 1950s, and Alianza Hispano-Americana lacked organization, funding, influence and a national consensus on the best methods by which to address these major ...
Alianza Hispano-Americana - Founded January 14, 1894, in Tucson, Arizona. The Supreme Lodge was incorporated under the laws of Arizona in October 1902. The first Supreme President was M. G. Samaniego, whose term lasted a year. He was succeeded by Samuel Brown, who continued in office until at least August 1918.
The Alianza Americas, formerly the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) until 2015, is a pan-American non-profit organization based in Hispanic and Latino American and Caribbean immigrant communities in the United States. [2] Oscar Chacón speaks at Stop Separating Immigrant Families event in Chicago, 2018
The Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) is an organization based in California that promotes the interests of Mexican-Americans, Mexicans, Latinos, Chicanos, Hispanics, and Latino economic refugees in the United States.
Union Latino Americana (ULA) was a short-lived Pan American Governing body of Hispanic fraternities created in the early 20th century. The ULA represented 21 Latin American countries and the United States. It operated from 1932 to 1939.
Alianza Federal de Mercedes, [1] which in English translates to Federal Land Grant Alliance, was a group led by Reies Tijerina based in New Mexico in the 1960s that fought for the land rights of Hispano New Mexicans. [2] [3] The Alianza had affiliates in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico and San Luis, Colorado.