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Oral History Interview with Philip L. Soto

Author : Philip Lewis Soto

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Page : 490 pages

File Size : 27,58 MB

Release : 1988

Category : Agricultural laborers

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Philip L. Soto discusses his family background, service in World War II, securing a vocational education under the G.I. bill, civic affairs and community involvement in La Puente, including service on the city council, supporting the presidential candidacy of John F. Kennedy, running successfully in 1962 and 1964 for an assembly seat, sponsoring numerous bills on education, health, and local government; shares observations about Jesse M. Unruh and other significant assembly members and Governor Edmund G. Brown, Sr.



Oral History Interview with Nell Soto

Author : Nell Soto

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Page : 240 pages

File Size : 12,49 MB

Release : 1988

Category : Apportionment (Election law)

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Soto discusses her family background, education, experiences working during World War II, interest and activity in Democratic party politics in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and involvement in her husband's (Philip L. Soto) La Puente City council and California State Assembly election campaigns.



Jess

Author : Jackson K. Putnam

Publisher : University Press of America

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 27,57 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780761830689

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Jesse Marvin Unruh acquired a national political reputation despite the fact that he never gained office above the California governmental level. He spent sixteen years (1955-1970) in the state legislature, seven of them as assembly speaker. While there he secured passage of moderate-liberal legislation and upgraded the quality of the state legislature to the number one position in the nation.





Embattled Dreams

Author : Kevin Starr

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 420 pages

File Size : 10,97 MB

Release : 2002

Category : History

ISBN : 9780195168976

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This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultural force it has been in America ever since.



The UCLA Oral History Program

Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program

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Page : 424 pages

File Size : 16,19 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Oral history

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Oral History Interview with Richard A. Santillan

Author : Richard Santillan

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Page : 538 pages

File Size : 31,79 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Apportionment (Election law)

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Santillan discusses his early life and education in Los Angeles and details his activities and advocacy in various organizations, especially Californios for Fair Representation, and his reapportionment-related work as director, Chicano Reapportionment Project, Rose Institute of State and Local Government, Claremont, California.



Oral History Interview with Miguel F. Garcia II

Author : Miguel F. García

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Page : 346 pages

File Size : 37,62 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Apportionment (Election law)

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Garcia discusses his early life in Mexico and Los Angeles, education through law school, legal work defending individuals subjected to police abuse, and details his activities--and those of many others--in Chicanos for Fair Representation leading up to the reapportionment of electoral districts in California based on 1970 and 1980 census counts, respectively. At the time of the interview he was an attorney in private practice.



Oral History Interview with Richard A. Martinez

Author : Richard A. Martinez

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Page : 622 pages

File Size : 50,75 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Apportionment (Election law)

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Martinez discusses his early life and education in Los Angeles, service in the National Guard during the Watts rebellion of 1965, and his growing involvement in activist organizations. The interview focuses particularly on Martinez's observations of the 1970 and 1980 California reapportionment efforts among Mexican Americans.



Government Records in the RLIN Database

Author : Research Libraries Group

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Page : 24 pages

File Size : 22,64 MB

Release : 1990

Category : California

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Contains sample descriptions of the records of government agencies available in the RLIN database.