Dr. Albert Camarillo, "Latina/o Voting Rights and the Power of History: the Case of Kern County"
Channel: CSUB Stiern Library - Historical Research Center
Date: 2018-10-19

Dr. Camarillo is a Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, Emeritus Department of History at Stanford University. Dr. Camarillo served as an expert witness in support of the plaintiffs in the recent precedent setting U.S. District Court case, Luna v. Kern County Board of Supervisors, Camarillo provided historical and contemporary perspectives of why this federal Federal Voting Rights act case was so important for the growing Latina/o population in Kern County and in California.