Mexican American Women and Social Change: The Founding of the Community Service Organization in Los Angeles, An Oral History
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California State University, Stanislaus, Ethnic and Women's Studies DepartmentIssue Date
1999Keywords
Women in community organization -- California -- Los AngelesLos Angeles Community Service Organization
Hispanic American women -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions
Community leadership -- California -- Los Angeles
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The MASRC Working Paper Series © The Arizona Board of RegentsCollection Information
The goal of the Mexican American Studies & Research Center's Working Paper Series is to disseminate recent research on the Mexican American experience. The Center welcomes papers from the social sciences, public policy fields, and the humanities. Areas of particular interest include economic and political participation of Mexican Americans, health, immigration, and education. The Mexican American Studies & Research Center assumes no responsibility for statements or opinions of contributors to its Working Paper Series.Abstract
The Community Service Organization, a grassroots social service agency that originated in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, is generally identified by its male leadership. Research conducted for the present oral history, however, indicates that Mexican American women were essential to the founding of the organization, as well as to its success during the forty-six years it was in operation. This paper is a history of the founding of the CSO based on interviews with eleven Mexican American women and one Mexican American man, all of whom were founding members.Identifiers
0732-7749http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219194
656829572