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United States Commission on Civil Rights

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Dates

  • Existence: 1957

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Grace Montanez Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 39
Abstract Grace Montanez Davis became politically active in the early 1950s, when she became involved with the Community Service Organization (CSO), a broad-based service organization founded in 1947 by Edward Roybal, Fred Ross, and Saul Alinsky. In 1967 she campaigned for Julian Nava, the first Latino elected to the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. In 1973 Montanez Davis was recruited by Mayor Tom Bradley to be his director of human resources, and in August 1975 Montanez Davis...
Dates: 1940 - 1990