This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes available of her participation in this unknown and unpublicized civil rights movement. It is a realistic portrayal of an exclusionist semi-colonial society that the reader discovers; a Jim Crow type of political and racial existence against all people of Mexican descent. It represents Sloss-Vento's lifelong struggle for economic and social equality. Adela Sloss-Vento's role as a Civil Rights pioneer antedates Dr. Anna Pauline Murray by eight years and Martin Luther King by twenty-eight years. She places her mark in history as a leader, not only for the first seminal Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement of Texas but the first woman and voice in an early, if not the earliest Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface: Purpose, Goals, and Family History
Acknowledgments
Adela Sloss-Vento: A Woman Of and Before Her Times, Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodríguez
Part I: The San Juan Phase: Origins and the Formation of a Political Activist
Part II: The Edinburg Phase: Work, Family and Political Activism
Part III: Archival Literature
Selected Essays
Selected Excerpts: Newspaper Articles
Selected Letters: 1941-1992
Appendix I: San Juan, Texas: Socio-Cultural-Political Background
Appendix II: Biographical Addenda
Suggested Readings
