Word: chicanos
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...leader of the anti-Equal Rights Amendment forces. The Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women has asked ERA supporters to bring aluminum cans to a Coors recycling center and demand that the company pay for them with checks made out to the local pro-ERA campaign. Chicano boycotters accuse Coors of racial discrimination in hiring, a charge that the company denies...
...with yet another of his inimitable tracts of Gonzo journalism, a rambling tale of how he learned of the whereabouts of his erstwhile companion Oscar Zeta Acosta, the 300-pound Samoan attorney of Fear and Loathing in Vegas fame. It turns out that Acosta is in fact a crazy Chicano militant who has traded in his law books for the accoutrements of drug smuggling. Studded with the usual bizarre quotations and extravagant graphics, Thompson's piece ends with a series of burned-out ruminations on the unseen forces in American society that coalesced to wreak havoc on this self-styled...
Ross first met Chavez in San Jose in 1952, he said. The two worked together in the Community Service Organization until Chavez left in 1962 to devote all his time to organizing Chicano farm workers...
...Harvard Law Guild and the Chicano Law Students' Association also plan to proceed with a demonstration "to protest repressive Burger Court decisions" tomorrow night prior to the beginning of the Ames arguments outside of Austin Hall, where the contest will take place...
...most galling rejection came from the nearby University of California at Davis. Established in 1968, the medical school had enrolled only two blacks and one Chicano in its first two entering classes. So the faculty authorized a special admissions program for "individuals from disadvantaged educational, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds"; soon it reserved 16 of 100 slots for them in each class. By 1974, the university was using application forms that asked for racial identification; the results made it clear that only blacks, Chicanes, American Indians and Asians need apply for the 16 places. The university never denied that...