Ralph Cuarón
Ralph Cuarón (1923-2002) was a
Black-Brown unity and was heavily criticized for his activism by anti-communist politician Jack Tenney, being described as a "monster" for his idea of a Mexican-American ethnic class consciousness.[2][3]
Cuarón became the first national youth director of Asociación Nacional México-Americana (ANMA) in the 1950s, after being introduced to leftist organizers in Los Angeles by Francisca Flores.[4]
In the 1970s, Cuarón moved from
FBI closely monitored Cuarón and his relationship with the local San Bernardino-Riverside County Communist Party, referring to his work as resulting "in the indoctrination of Chicanos."[3] In 1974, he was hired as a custodian at the University of California, Riverside and engaged in union and campus community organizing on issues of labor rights, political activism, and education reform.[3]
References
- ^ "Ralph Cuaron". Legacy. 17 March 2002.
- ^ Rigelhaupt, Jess M. (2005). "Education for action": the California Labor School, radical unionism, civil rights, and progressive coalition building in the San Francisco Bay area, 1934-1970. University of Michigan. p. 221.
- ^ ISBN 978-0816538669.
- ISBN 0253111692.
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