Details

Subject(s)

• Escalante, Alicia—Correspondence [Browse]
• Women civil rights workers—Biography [Browse]
• Women civil rights workers—Correspondence [Browse]

Series

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. [More in this series]

Summary note

Alicia Escalante was a Chicana activist who championed welfare rights, economic justice and women's rights in Los Angeles during the 1960s Chicano movement. She was involved in, and arrested for, participation in multiple social and economic justice movements. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, articles, publications and internal organisational files that document her activism and socio-political involvement.

Notes

• Date range: 1961-2001.
• Includes the following subcollections: Series I: Personal and biographical information; Series II: Correspondence; Series III: Organizational activity; Series IV: Publications; Series V: Subject files.
• Reproduction of the originals from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
• Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

OCLC

1162333498

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