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Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas Mexican workers and job politics during World War II /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zamora, Emilio.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Gomez-Quinones, Juan.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ; no. 15.
Subjects:
United States. > Committee on Fair Employment Practice > History > 20th century.
League of United Latin American Citizens > History > 20th century.
Foreign workers, Mexican > Texas > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Mexican Americans.
Mexican Americans > Employment > Texas > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > Texas > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Social conditions > 20th century.
Discrimination in employment > Texas > History > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Foreign relations > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Wartime recovery and denied opportunities
  • Elevating the Mexican cause to a hemispheric level
  • The fight for Mexican rights in Texas
  • The FEPC and Mexican workers in Texas
  • The slippery slope of equal opportunity in the refineries of the Upper Texas Gulf Coast
  • Negotiating Mexican workers' rights at Corpus Christi.

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