Arnoldo Carlos Vento

Adela Sloss-Vento (eBook, PDF)

Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761879954
• Artikelnr.: 74829825

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Purpose, Goals, and Family History Acknowledgments Adela
Sloss-Vento: A Woman Of and Before Her Times, Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodríguez
Part I: The San Juan Phase: Origins and the Formation of a Political
Activist Part II: The Edinburg Phase: Work, Family and Political Activism
Part III: Archival Literature Selected Essays Selected Excerpts: Newspaper
Articles Selected Letters: 1941-1992 Appendix I: San Juan, Texas:
Socio-Cultural-Political Background Appendix II: Biographical Addenda
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