This article contributes to the study of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) through a narrative grounded on two points of innovation. It offers frameworks to decenter the conversation on HSIs from normative practices in higher education to focus on pedagogical, cultural, and political relational processes that find greater congruence between nominal HSIs and the serves. This study employs a methodology and theoretical framework that aligns the inquiry, pedagogy, and meaning-making process in a generative and relational discourse.
During the 1950s Mexican Americans in Tucson participated in civil rights campaigns as members of organizations such as the Alianza Hispano Americana, Arizona Council for Civic Unity, and Tucson Council for Civic Unity. Their goal was to end school segregation laws and to pass legislation abolishing segregation in public accommodations and facilities. Mexican American civil rights leaders and their allies in Tucson worked with an interracial coalition of civic-minded activists to promote civil rights for all Arizonans in the post-World War II era. This article contributes to our understanding of civil rights activism by Mexican Americans in Tucson and their role in advancing the larger anti-segregation and civil rights movements in Arizona and the Southwest. In 1948, Dr. Fred G. Holmes organized the Arizona Council for Civic Unity (ACCU) to promote interethnic and intercultural understanding. Inspired by President Harry S. Truman's Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR), Holmes formed the ACCU with a cross-section of diverse Arizonans to challenge both de jure and de facto segregation locally and in concert with larger civil rights activism in the United States. 1 The ACCU had two affiliates, the Tucson Council for MARITZA DE LA TRINIDAD is an assistant professor of Mexican American Studies and History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She received an M.A. in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Arizona. 1 In 1947, Dr. Fred G. Holmes, M.D. worked with Louis Wirth of the American Council for Race Relations in Chicago when the report To Secure these Rights, The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights was released in October 1947. In December 1946 President Truman signed Executive Order 9808, creating the President's Committee on Civil Rights (PCCR). The PCCR was charged with investigating civil rights violations, segregation, violence against ethnic, racial, and religious minority groups, and provide public policy recommendations to improve race relations.
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