We Won't Back Down: Severita Lara's Rise from Student Leader to Mayor
by Jose Angel Gutierrez
The Hispanic Civil Rights Series (2005)
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Civil rights leader Jose Gutierrez chronicles the life of Severita Lara, a little-known female activist in the Hispanic Civil Rights Movement. Lara's ascent from a willful child to the mayor of Crystal City, Texas all began with the Crystal City High student walkout in 1969.Tags
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Jose Angel Gutierrez is professor of political science and founder of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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- We Won't Back Down: Severita Lara's Rise from Student Leader to Mayor
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