When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...

"Meet Freddie Freak Trujillo -- A Man of the 1970s Chicano Movement Days in Boulder, Colorado. He is a self-made man who pulled himself out of a pit of addiction to alcohol and prescribed barbiturates to participate in many of the historic moments of the times. His book, told in his own colloquial voice, describes his family, the choices he made, the learning he pursued in media and the way he was able to collect print, audio, and video materials...

"May 27, 1974, Boulder, Colorado. Neva Romero, a young University of Colorado student is killed along with two other Chicano Rights activists. Forty-eight hours later, three more Chicanos are killed. They become known as Los Seis de Boulder. Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados examines the committed young activists who would forever change El Movimiento."--Insert in container.

By the mid 1960's, at the thrust of the Chicano Movement, Suzanna Montoya had settled in the city, gained a critical consciousness, and began to address urban concerns about race, class, and gender. Like many of her nameless Southwest contemporaries, Suzanna did her part where she lived on the west side of town, part of, but disenfranchised from the mainstream. Once again, Irene Blea, via Suzanna's analytical gift renders a colorful voice as she takes...

In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hern©Øandez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of ten of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discriminiation against Mexican...

Civil Rights For Beginners fills a major gap by placing the modern civil rights movement into a broader historical perspective. It also discusses the civil rights and liberation movements from the 60s to the present that the African American freedom struggles helped to catalyze including the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, the Asian-American Movement, the Women's Movement, and the Gay Liberation Movement. Unlike most civil rights books,...