Title: LULAC, Mexican Americans, and national policy
Description: "Through the dedicated intervention of LULAC and other Mexican American activist groups, the understanding of civil rights in America was vastly expanded in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Mexican Americans gained federal remedies for discrimination based not simply on racial but also on cultural and linguistic disadvantage." "In this book, Craig A. Kaplowitz draws on primary sources, at both national and local levels, to understand the federal policy arena in which the identity issues and power politics of LULAC were played out. At the national level, he focuses on presidential policies and politics, since civil rights has been preeminently a presidential issue."--Jacket.
Subjects: League of United Latin American Citizens, Politics and government, Government policy, Civil rights, Social policy, Ethnic relations, Mexican Americans, History, United states, ethnic relations, United states, social policy
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century