Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas [electronic resource] : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II / Emilio Zamora ; foreword by Juan Gómez Quiñones.
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TextSeries: Rio Grande/Río Bravo ; no. 15.Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 318 p. : illSubject(s): - 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.
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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