Chicano activist to bring message to Valley – Jose Angel Gutierrez – Texas
Tagged: activist, attorney, brownsville, Chicano, Professor, Texas, university of texasPosted on: October 8th, 2007“A Chicano activist credited for helping to found a political movement in the 1960s, and sometimes rebuked for his controversial remarks about Anglos, is slated to speak Tuesday in Brownsville.
Jose Angel Gutierrez, a 63-year-old attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, helped propel Mexican-Americans into elected positions in his native Crystal City when Anglos ruled South Texas politics despite Hispanics being the majority. “
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