Celebrating Women's History Month, Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco, professor of History and Humanities, will speak about relatively unknown Texas-Mexican American civil rights leader Adela Sloss-Vento at noon Thursday, March 22, at  Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso.
Sloss-Vento was one of the most important Latino civil rights leaders in the United States. In Texas, she worked in the Mexican American civil rights movement, wrote for numerous Spanish and English language newspapers from 1927 to 1990, and wrote a book on civil rights leader Alonso S. Perales. She also argued for women’s political empowerment.
Orozco met Sloss-Vento in 1978, when she was conducting research on the history of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Orozco is completing a book about her.
Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Orozco at 575-258-2212.