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Harvard-Radcliffe Raza (Mexican-American Assoc...
...services for the people who live there. The city that is one of the nation's wealthiest also harbors some of the country's worst poverty pockets. Several Houston communities are even without such basics as sewers and running water. And, not surprisingly, most of these neighborhoods are black, Mexican-American, or poor white...
Bradley won not only 92% of the black vote and 51% of the Mexican-American vote (which in the past had gone to Yorty) but also half of the white vote. "I have never run as a black," he said after his victory. "I am a politician who happens to be a black. This will be the new style. We [blacks] will achieve political influence because of our stand on all the issues...
...company refused to recognize the strikers' demand to be represented by a union (the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America), much less bargain with them for higher wages. Strike leaders called a national boycott of Farah goods and, since 95% of the company's work force is Mexican-American, the company was soon squirming under the heat of a popular Chicano cause rivaling the California grape and lettuce workers' strikes...
...finally decided to hear the Texas suit; it is a classic case of discrimination by pocketbook. The suit was brought by a group of parents led by Demetrio P. Rodriguez, a civil service worker at Kelly Air Force Base whose two children attend Edgewood elementary school in a predominantly Mexican-American section of San Antonio. Rodriguez visited the school in 1968 and found that water fountains did not work, bathrooms had no toilet paper, science rooms had no sinks and the library was short of books. Moreover, the school's dropout rate...