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During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shi
Zoot Suit & Other Plays
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Authors: Luis Valdez
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This critically acclaimed play by Luis Valdez cracks open the depiction of Chicanos on stage, challenging viewers to revisit a troubled moment in our nationÕs
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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A valuable book and the first significant scholarship on Mexican Americans in World War II. Up to 750,000 Mexican American men served in World War II, earning m
Blowout!
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In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminat
Freedom Struggles
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Authors: Adriane Lentz-Smith
Categories: History
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For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial Afric