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...ALWAYS THOUGHT that Mexican-Americans should not begin to ally with other people until our house is in order. But I think our house is now in order, and the time is right to coalesce with other progressive groups," William C. Velasquez says. And Velasquez, currently executive director of Southwest Voter Registration Project, should know. He's spent the last decade-and-a-half preparing for this time...
...Velasquez dropped out of graduate school to work for Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in his native Texas. The product of a strong union family, Velasquez explains simply. "Farmworkers were in severe need. I felt it was an obligation...
...Raza was, at its inception in 1968, a Mexican-American third party, formed "as a reaction to the Democratic party practice of herding Mexicans to the polls for nothing in return." When Velasquez chaired its first convention, "it was an authentic, real people's movement...
William C. Velasquez, director of the Southwest Voter Registration Project, recalled having sworn off both political parties and the entire state government of Texas when state troopers violently broke a 1967 farm-workers' strike in that state...
...Like Velasquez, Percy C. Wilson, former director of the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, described a career of battling prejudice that began at an early age. Growing up in Alabama, Wilson said, he and his friends called the state "the land of the free and the home of the Braves...If you were Black, you were a Brave...