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Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- Chicanos -- Civil rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Local subdivisions (Chicanos -- Civil rights)

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Virginia Espino and Renee Tajima-Peña Collection of Sterilization Records

 Collection
Identifier: CSRC-0016
Abstract This collection includes court records from the 1970's federal class action lawsuit, Madrigal v. Quilligan, which brought to light the coerced sterilization of Latina women at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. The case was brought to court by 10 Latina women against E.J. Quilligan, M.D., and other hospital obstetricians. The court records span from June 1975 through April 1979. The judge ruled against the women. However, the case increased public awareness...
Dates: 1975-2001

La Raza Publication Records

 Collection
Identifier: CSRC-1001
Abstract

This collection includes digitized issues of the La Raza newspaper and magazine that ran from 1967-1977.

Dates: 1967-1977

Ricardo Muñoz Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: 64
Abstract Ricardo Muñoz was a Los Angeles lawyer and later an administrative law judge with the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. His collection includes photographs, sound recordings, correspondence, and personal papers that document his family history, and organizational papers that reflect his juridical work in Los Angeles from 1972-2004. This collection also includes extensive personal papers of Muñoz's father, mother, and paternal grandparents. This collection documents...
Dates: 1900 - 2005