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Because the grapes offer this "year-round" source of jobs, Delano has developed a stable Mexican-American community which makes up about half of the city's 12,000 population. Almost all of the Mexican-Americans live on the west side of town where the neighborhoods are only saved from being typical urban slums by the wide streets, low buildings, and invariably bright...
...criticism of Yorty stems as much from his attitude as from what he has or has not done for the city's minorities -which also include a 780,000-member Mexican-American community, the third largest concentration of Mexicans in the world after Mexico City and Guadalajara. Many voters have got the impression that Yorty has "stood up to the Negroes." He has scored Pat Brown and Washington for stirring up the hopes of Los Angeles Negroes, repeatedly blamed outside agitators for Watts's troubles. Doing little to cure slum conditions, he has concentrated on preventing new ghettos...
...MIGUEL. Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, Island of the Blue Dolphins) scores again with the sturdy tale of a Mexican-American lad (Pat Cardi) growing up on a sheep ranch...
...MIGUEL. Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, Island of the Blue Dolphins) scores again with the sturdy tale of a Mexican-American lad (Pat Cardi) growing from boyhood to manhood on a sheep ranch in the Southwest...
Wearing rosaries and carrying a sequined banner that pictured the Virgin of Guadalupe, along with crudely lettered union slogans, 100 Mexican-American grape pickers last week finished a monthlong, 300-mile march of penance and protest through California's Central Valley from Delano to Sacramento. Marching with them were Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers, and the mood of the demonstrators was triumphant. For shortly before the protesters reached the state capital, they had won recognition of their embryonic union, the National Farm Workers Association, from Schenley Industries Inc., which owns about 2,400 acres of vineyards...