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Agent of Change

"The first comprehensive biography of Sloss-Vento, an essayist and activist in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the male-dominated Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s"—

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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