Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-1984
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Name (Latin)
Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-1984
Other forms of name
Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-
Date of birth
1905-08-15
Date of death
1984-06-22
Place of birth
Jalcocotán (Mexico)
Place of death
Santa Clara (Calif.)
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Authors
Scholars
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His The Roman Catholic church ... 1928.
- His Barrio boy, c2011:ECIP data view (Ernesto Galarza (1905-1984); civil rights and labor activist, scholar, and pioneer during decades when Mexican Americans had few public advocates; b. in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, Mexico; at age 8, emigrated to Sacramento, Calif. and worked as farm laborer; one of Stanford's first Chicano alumni; M.A., 1929; Ph.D. in history from Columbia Univ., 1944; returned to Calif. and during 1950s joined effort to create first multiracial farm workers' union; books include Merchants of labor (1964); Barrio boy (1971); was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature)
- California death index, via Ancestry.com, October 31, 2013(Ernesto Galarza; born August 15, 1905, Mexico; died June 22, 1984, Santa Clara)
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Wikipedia description:
Ernesto Galarza (August 15, 1905 – June 22, 1984) was a Mexican-American labor organizer, activist, professor, poet, writer, storyteller, and a key figure in the history of immigrant farmworker organization in California. He had a dream of giving better living conditions to working-class Latinos.
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