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The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control
University of Wisconsin Press, 1998 eISBN: 978-0-299-15823-1 | Paper: 978-0-299-15824-8 | Cloth: 978-0-299-15820-0 Library of Congress Classification F394.C83N37 1998 Dewey Decimal Classification 976.4437
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Amidst the turbulence and militancy of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Mexicano population of the dusty agricultural town of Crystal City, Texas (Cristal in Spanish), staged two electoral revolts, each time winning control of the city council and school board. The landmark city council victory in 1963 was a first for Mexican Americans in South Texas, and Cristal—the “spinach capital of the world”—became for a time the political capital of the Chicano Movement. See other books on: Community leadership | Crystal City | Crystal City (Tex.) | Mexican Americans | Navarro, Armando See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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