Word: centro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barrios to distill the Mexican-American way of life-and found the Chicanos strikingly similar in mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges." At the end, when Union Leader Cesar Chavez began to speak, she thought that she had obtained a perfect worm's-eye view amid the swarming crowd by squirming under the flatbed...
...internal Puerto Rican affairs are concerned, both the Centro and SNAP have squared off, though not in unison, against another power in the South End on the matter of urban renewal...
Spanish-speaking MAWS meets in the Centro de Accion. A typical weekday scene in the Centro features DeJesus' assistants gesticulating on the phones about APCROSS at the front on the dark, bare room, and two rows of mothers seated facing each other, waiting to see the MAWS agent, in the back. The picture presents a startling contrast to the early, empty days at the Centro under Igleias...
...Puerto Ricans are not yet a great force in Boston's elective politics; a few thousand votes talk, but not too loudly, to the politicians. Kevin White, whose South End headquarters was across Tremont Street from the Centro, received unofficial endorsement from DeJesus, Molino, and other Puerto Rican leaders. But, in the main, these leaders have felt too weak to be partisan in city politics...
Rather, until their numbers grow, the Puerto Ricans will concentrate on being a noisy, complaining pressure group when they want the attention of the politicians. As the Centro, the Puerto Rican element in SNAP, and MAWS are demonstrating, pressure group politics can carry people a long...