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Adela Sloss-Vento
Arnoldo Carlos Vento
其他書名
Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer
出版
Rowman & Littlefield
, 2017-05-18
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
Political Science / Civil Rights
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
Social Science / Emigration & Immigration
ISBN
076186914X
9780761869146
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=P-bCDgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes available of her participation in this unknown and unpublicized civil rights movement. It is a realistic portrayal of an exclusionist semi-colonial society that the reader discovers; a Jim Crow type of political and racial existence against all people of Mexican descent. It represents Sloss-Vento’s lifelong struggle for economic and social equality. Adela Sloss-Vento’s role as a Civil Rights pioneer antedates Dr. Anna Pauline Murray by eight years and Martin Luther King by twenty-eight years. She places her mark in history as a leader, not only for the first seminal Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement of Texas but the first woman and voice in an early, if not the earliest Civil Rights Movement in the United States.