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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 ...
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
Hilario was a founding member of the Alianza Hispano-Americana, established in 1894 to protect Mexicans against disempowerment by White American settlers. [4] [5] At one point, he ran a saloon and owned the Occidental Hotel (previously the Palace Hotel). He later co-founded the Club Demócrato Hispano-Americano (English: Hispanic American ...
The Union Latino Americana (ULA) was established in 1932 during a convention of Phi Iota Alpha in the New York City, New York. [1] The ULA was a framework for the implementation of Pan-American ideology. The ULA organized Latin America into 22 zones. Each of the 21 Latin American countries constituted a zone.
La Alianza Hispana is a social service agency founded in 1969 by residents of Roxbury/ North Dorchester to support Boston's Hispanic population. La Alianza advocates for equal access to services and public resources for the Hispanic Community by combating the effects of discrimination , poverty and challenges of migration.
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. Hispano residents had settled in the ...
The origins of Phi Iota Alpha began at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, on November 20, 1898. [5] [6] A group of a seven Latin American students organized the Union Hispano Americana (UHA) as a cultural and intellectual secret society based on the ideology of Pan-Americanism in attempt to promote further unity amongst the Latin student body that was nearly comprised ...