LULAC—One Million Latinas Strong

LULAC—One Million Latinas Strong

Image from Twitter The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the United States, is a non-partisan movement that seeks to “advance the economic condition, educational attainment, the political influence,...
La Mujer Obrera

La Mujer Obrera

Image from Facebook La Mujer Obrera (“The Woman Worker”) is an El Paso-based organization and movement “dedicated to creating communities defined by women”. The organization was founded in 1981 in response to conditions that led to the 1982 Farah Strike, in which...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

LBJ, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks at the signing of the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965. Public domain image. In 1965, in the wake of the shocking violence perpetrated on peaceful voting rights protestors at the historical Selma-Montgomery March,...