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- ISBN 9780761869139
- Weight: 599g
- Dimensions: 161 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2017
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Arnoldo Carlos Vento, PhD, is a bi-lingual, bi-cultural scholar who experienced early the humiliation of segregation. Fortunate to have had the guidance and wisdom of activist Adela Sloss-Vento, he has followed her example to become an international multi-disciplinary scholar and author in multiple areas covering themes and issues relevant to society and its evolution.
