Alicia Escalante papers.

Alicia Escalante was a Chicana activist who championed welfare rights, economic justice and women's rights in Los Angeles during the 1960s Chicano movement. She was involved in, and arrested for, participation in multiple social and economic justice movements. The collection includes correspondence,...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
Main Author: Escalante, Alicia (Author)
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1961-2001.
Series:Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
Subjects:
Escalante, Alicia > Correspondence.
Women civil rights workers > Correspondence.
Women civil rights workers > Biography.
Genre:
Correspondence.
Biography.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Gale)
Local Note:
Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1,059 manuscripts).
Format: Electronic
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Summary:
Alicia Escalante was a Chicana activist who championed welfare rights, economic justice and women's rights in Los Angeles during the 1960s Chicano movement. She was involved in, and arrested for, participation in multiple social and economic justice movements. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, articles, publications and internal organisational files that document her activism and socio-political involvement.
Note:Date range: 1961-2001.
Reproduction of the originals from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
Includes the following subcollections: Series I: Personal and biographical information; Series II: Correspondence; Series III: Organizational activity; Series IV: Publications; Series V: Subject files.