Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zapata and the Mexican Revolution is a vast achievement, not only because the civil war in the state of Morelos and Zapata himself are important to the Mexican Revolution, but because it is hard to imagine a historian, especially a gringo historian, writing a book which comprehends so deeply the spirit and desires of the men who made the events...
Although the Mexican Revolution ended a half-century ago and some of its accoutrements, the big sombreros and the moustaches, may seem laughable to us now, the Revolution remains an instructive episode in modern history. Zapata's guerrilla tactics were those the Viet Cong use; during the Huerta dictatorship, villagers in Morelos were herded into camps while their land was defoliated, that the farmers might be pacified; journalists and outside agitators attempted to change the course of the Revolution...
ZAPATA AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, by John Womack Jr. A young (31) Harvard historian tells the great revolutionary's story with skill, judgment and a sense of compassion...
...presidential campaign. But many of those clergymen were Southern Baptists, who do not belong to the Texas Council of Churches, although they attended the founding ceremonies as observers. As it happened, the only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been assigned by the Texas Council to work for rural self-determination in the Rio Grande Valley. The protesters were quickly assured that the conference would work "aggressive ly, creatively and risk its very life...
...total Financial Aid budget that is expected to exceed $1.6 million, the Business School has allocated $300,000 to this program. This year, awards for students averaged $3500 in outright fellowships and $500 in loans. Twenty-six blacks and one Mexican-American participated in the program...