- Reies López Tijerina: Hero, Villain — or Both? - UC Davis
Lorena Oropeza, professor in the Department of History, conducted intense archival research and personal interviews in writing the first full biography of Reies López Tijerina, a leader of the Chicano movement, recounting his childhood, activism and memoirs
- The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano . . .
Lorena Oropeza is professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and author of ¡Raza Si! ¡Guerra No! Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Viet Nam War Era In 1967, Reies
- The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano . . .
In this fresh and unvarnished biography, Lorena Oropeza traces the origins of Tijerina's revelatory historical analysis to the years he spent as a Pentecostal preacher and his hidden past as a self-proclaimed prophet of God
- This Land Is My Land: The Story of Reies López Tijerina
In New Mexico during the 1960s, Reies López Tijerina transformed the issue of land rights into an issue of civil rights He led a movement of Hispanos –people with Spanish, Mexican and Native American ancestry– who had lost their communal land to private landowners or government agencies and demanded it back
- Reies Tijerina - Wikipedia
Reies López Tijerina (September 21, 1926 – January 19, 2015), was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners [1]
- Reies Tijerina | Biography Facts | Britannica
Reies Tijerina, American radical and civil rights activist who led a land-grant movement in northern New Mexico from 1956 to 1976 He organized hundreds of Chicanos to demand repatriation of land confiscated by Anglo surveyors in violation of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 1967: Tierra Amarilla Land Grant Courthouse Raid - A Latinx Resource . . .
Under Mexico’s government, community land grants like the 524,215-acre Tierra Amarilla land grant issued in 1832 could not be sold Nonetheless, Surveyor General William Pelham, recognized these lands as private; so resistance movements by former Mexican citizens ensued
- This Land Is My Land: The Story Of Reies López Tijerina - NPR
In northern New Mexico, Reies López Tijerina transformed the issue of land rights into an issue of civil rights We take a look at the legacy of López Tijerina and his work
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