Download or read book The Annenbergs written by John E. Cooney and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.

Download or read book In Defense of My People written by Alonso S. Perales and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1927, when his letters to two Texas governors about the assassination of Mexican Americans in police custody in South Texas were ignored, Alonso S. Perales wrote to President Coolidge, asking for the Justice Department to conduct an official investigation into their deaths. Perales believed US citizens of Mexican descent had an obligation to their country, "including offering our lives for this Nation when necessary." He also believed adamantly that the United States had a duty to protect the rights of all its people. Originally published in Spanish in 1936 and 1937, In Defense of My People contains articles, letters and speeches written by one of the most influential civil rights activists of the early twentieth century. When Mexican-American veterans of World War II were denied service in a South Texas pool hall, even while wearing their uniforms, Perales wrote about the incident for The San Antonio Express. He also exhorted his community to secure an education and participate in civic duties. His form letter, "How to Request School Facilities for Our Children," helped parents secure schools "equal to those furnished children of Anglo-American descent." Alonso S. Perales was the co-founder of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), an attorney, activist and US diplomat. He has been largely forgotten, in part because his writings were in Spanish. This first-ever English translation of his two-volume publication, En defensa de mi raza, will make Perales' contributions to equal rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans available to a much larger audience. A long-lost gem of the civil rights movement, this book is a must-read for historians and anyone interested in the Latino community's fight for rights, dignity and respect.

Download or read book Trespassers on Our Own Land written by Juan P. Valdez and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan P. Valdez was born May 25, 1938 in Canjilon, New Mexico, the second of Amarante and Philomena Valdez' seven children. Juan's father took him out of school after the third grade to help with the raising of crops and tending of livestock necessary to support the family. After having been continuously denied grazing permits by the U. S. Forest Service it was necessary for Juan to sneak his family's cattle on and off the forest pastures on a daily basis. While in his mid-twenties Juan met Reies Lopez Tijerina, a charismatic former preacher who was traveling from village to village in Northern New Mexico speaking out about how the United States had stolen hundreds of thousands of acres of grant lands that were supposed to have been protected by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Juan was the first of eight members of Tijerina's Alianza to enter the Rio Arriba County courthouse on June 5, 1967 in a failed attempt to arrest the local district attorney, Alfonso Sanchez. Ironically, the judge in the courthouse that day was J. M. Scarborough, the father of Mike Scarborough who would wind up assisting Juan in the telling of his family history. Trespassers On Our Own Land is the history of the Valdez family from the time Spain granted Juan Bautista Valdez, Juan's great, great, great-grandfather an interest in a land grant located around the present village of Canones, New Mexico. Mike Scarborough grew up in Espanola, sixty miles south of where Juan grew up. After having spent eight years in the United States Air Force, Mike returned to New Mexico, attended college and law school, and practiced law in the area for twenty-five years. Some years ago he was asked by his good friend, Juan Valdez, to help write Juan's family history. Mike recently completed a five year study of Juan's family history and the period during the late 1800s and early 1900s when the United States government chose to claim ownership of million of acres of then existing land grants and to deny the settlers who had lived on them for over eighty years their legitimate right to use the land. Trespassers on Our Own Land is the result of his research."

Download or read book No Greater Love written by Freddie Valenzuela and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Greater Love is essential reading for both American civilians and past, present, and future military personnel. Written by Major General Freddie Valenzuela, who has served all over the world and throughout several wars, this book offers eye-opening discussions of:* Challenges faced by Hispanic soldiers in the U.S. Army.* The life and burial of the very first casualty of the Iraq War.* The relatively unknown lives of the other twenty-one casualties that General Valenzuela buried.* Advice for current and future soldiers in moving up the ranks in their military careers.* Life in a military family, as revealed through firsthand accounts by the general's wife and children.* And many other topics affecting today's soldiers.

Download or read book From These Shores written by Helga Skogsbergh and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sword and the Chalice written by Joel C. Uribe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sword and the Chalice is a biographical account of two brothers from Tamaulipas, Mexico, Col. Bernardo and the Rev. Antonio Gutierrez de Lara Uribe who joined the cause of liberty during the Mexican War of Independence in 1810. They were both criollos of Old Ciudad Guerrero (formerly known as Revilla), a town along the banks of the Rio Grande across from the town that is now known as Zapata, Texas. After the famous Grito! (cry of independence) of Father Miguel Hidalgo from Dolores Hidalgo in 1811, Don Bernardo had a private conference with the Rev. Miguel Hidalgo and General Ignacio Allende, leaders of the independence movement, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. For thirty years these brothers dedicated their lives to the struggle to liberate Mexico from the Spanish domain and helped to reconstruct and form a democratic form of government. Their heroic deeds as described in this book, relate the drama of these men that takes place in the diplomatic arena of the United States; the battlefields of Texas; and the executive and legislative branches of the state of Tamaulipas and the national government of Mexico. Don Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara Uribe served as an emissary during the administration of President James MadisonCthus becoming the first ambassador of Mexico to the United States. Colonel Gutierrez de Lara (a rank conferred by Father Hidalgo) also prevailed in several significant battles against the Spanish Royalists in Texas. He was instrumental in converting the Province of Texas into a State for the Mexican government by writing its first state constitution. The Reverend Antonio Gutierrez de Lara served Mexico as a spiritual counselor and was later appointed representative of the Province of Nuevo Santander to the First Sovereign Congress during the leadership of Don Agustin de Iturbide. This book is filled with history, politics, military battles, diplomacy, drama, and it genuinely expresses the heartfelt patriotism of the Gutierrez de Lara brothers. To further illustrate this saga, this book contains a graphic collection of the grand homes in old Ciudad Guerrero. This book further contains family documents and writings of the Gutierrez de Lara Uribe=s family. In its entirety the book offers valuable information to those interested in the history and politics of the region of South Texas and Northern Mexico

Download or read book Painters and Politics written by Theda Shapiro and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: