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Jaime Manuel Gómez – Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division; Delia Gonzalez – flyweight female boxer [24] Jesús González – amateur champion and Super middleweight contender; Paul Gonzales – flyweight Olympic gold medalist; Rodolfo Gonzales – boxer, poet, and leader of the Chicano civil rights movement
Pages in category "Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jovita Idar Vivero (September 7, 1885 – June 15, 1946) was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants.
Before this, Chicano/a had been a term of derision, adopted by some Pachucos as an expression of defiance to Anglo-American society. [14] With the rise of Chicanismo, Chicano/a became a reclaimed term in the 1960s and 1970s, used to express political autonomy, ethnic and cultural solidarity, and pride in being of Indigenous descent, diverging from the assimilationist Mexican-American identity.
Mexican Democratic: New Mexico: Jan 3, 1983: Feb 13, 1997: Resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations [25] Esteban E. Torres (1930–2022) Mexican Democratic: California: Jan 3, 1983: Jan 3, 1999: Retired Barbara Vucanovich [26] (1921–2013) Mexican Republican: Nevada: Jan 3, 1983: Jan 3, 1997: Retired Albert Bustamante (1935 ...
In April 1938, Luisa Moreno and group of Mexican American labor activists, including Josefina Fierro, Eduardo Quevedo, and Bert Corona, organized the inaurural conference of El Congreso de Pueblos de Hablan Española in Los Angeles, an organization meant to promote a broad agenda of working class empowerment, civil rights, and Latino unity. [305]
Another famous Mexican-American Vietnam War activist is Joan Baez, but she conducted her protests through music.Credited with resurrecting the dying art of folk music along with her contemporary ...
Mexican activists with disabilities (4 P) Mexican women activists (2 C, 38 P) A. Mexican anti-abortion activists (7 P) Mexican anti-same-sex-marriage activists (1 P)