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Blanca C. Alcaraz '93, a graduate student in Romance Languages and Literature, grew up outside of Delano, Calif., a town which was the focal point of Caesar Chavez's strike...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Activist Tells of Workers' Plight | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...Sometimes it's more convenient not to think about what's going into your mouth and what it took to get there. You say, 'My eating this grape is not going to affect anyone," Alcaraz said...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Activist Tells of Workers' Plight | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...Alcaraz also expressed her disappointment at the event's low attendance...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Activist Tells of Workers' Plight | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...Maricela Alcaraz, 22, was at breakfast with her mother and two younger brothers in their apartment on the south side of the city. The lamp above the kitchen table began swinging back and forth, casting strange shadows on undulating walls. "Oh my God!" Maricela shouted. Her mother jumped up, ordered the children to go into a bedroom and stay together. They could hear doors banging as the building trembled. "The whole world was shaking," Maricela recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

Like most of the 27, basket maker Luterio Alcaraz had been no Sinarquista, only a devout Catholic. With his wife he had gone to the square to shout a protest. The pro-Catholic Civic Union was demonstrating against what it considered the fraudulent election of the Government's official P.R.M. (Mexican Revolutionary Party) candidate for mayor. Soldiers, on hand to guarantee the P.R.M. mayor's tenancy in office, opened fire. Luterio fell: So did the young daughter of Pedro Ramirez (see cut) and 25 others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Death in the Z | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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