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Week of Events
April 14, 2017
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Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante
Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante
A reception honoring Alicia Escalante, life-long community activist. Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of […]