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Hispanic Heritage Month: Civil Rights & Advocacy

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated September 15th to October 15th.

Introduction

Here is a small guide to civil rights, cases, and advocacy in relation to Latinx peoples.

The Library of Congress as a resource guide of civil rights cases and events centered in the United States in the 20th and 21st century.

How to Latinx self-identify?

Here is web section from the Smithsonian Institute about Latinx and self-identifying labels.

Timeline

Learning for Justice put together a timeline of Latinx civil rights on their website.

Selected Articles

Jessica Govea, labor leader and activist best known for her activism and livelong fight for Latinx workers.

 

Selected Podcast Episodes

Sawbones: a Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Folklife Today

Selected Books & eBooks

None of the Above: Protest Voting in Latin American Democracies by Mollie Cohen
Haiti for the Haitians: by Louis-Joseph Janvier
Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation by Abigial Leslie Andrews
Are We Not Foreigners Here? : Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Jeffrey Schulze
Cuban Revolution in America : Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992 by Teishan Latner
Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging Among Latino Millennials by Nilda Flores- Gonzalez
Collateral Damage by Sean Richey

Documentaries

Stolen Education on Alexander Street

This documentary uncovers stories from the 1950s of Mexican-American children who challenged Texas schools based on discrimination. This shows "not only an important moment in Mexican American history, but also provides important context to understand our current educational system's enduring legacy of segregation, discrimination and racism".

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