Lopez, Enrique Hank.

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Lopez was born on May 28, 1920 in Chihuahua, Mexico; grew up in Denver, CO; believed to be the first Hispanic-American to graduate from Harvard Law School; moved to California in 1948, where he became a lawyer, teacher and leader of the Los Angeles Latin community; advocated bilingual education as a lecturer at UC Berkeley and Yale Univ.; lectured at Harvard Univ. on the status of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans within the US political system; served as consultant on Latin affairs to the Ford Foundation; appointed to the American Bar Association's Committee on World Order; produced and narrated a television documentary on Chicanos; edited and published a Hispanic literary journal, Dialogos (1962-67); wrote a number of books, including Eros and ethos : a comparative study of Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant sex behavior (c1979), The Harvard mystique : the power syndrome that affects our lives from Sesame Street to the White House (c1979), and Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter : refugee from Indian Creek (1981); died on Oct. 20, 1985 in West Hollywood, CA.

From the description of Papers, 1960-1985. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39028408

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Lopez was born on May 28, 1920 in Chihuahua, Mexico; grew up in Denver, Colorado; believed to be the first Hispanic-American to graduate from Harvard Law School; moved to California in 1948, where he became a lawyer, teacher and leader of the Los Angeles Latin community; advocated bilingual education as a lecturer at University of California Berkeley and Yale University; lectured at Harvard University on the status of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans within the U.S. political system; served as consultant on Latin affairs to the Ford Foundation; appointed to the American Bar Association's Committee on World Order; produced and narrated a television documentary on Chicanos; edited and published a Hispanic literary journal, Dialogos (1962-67); wrote a number of books, including Eros and Ethos: A Comparative Study of Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant Sex Behavior (c1979), The Harvard mystique: the Power Syndrome That Affects Our Lives from Sesame Street to the White House (c1979), and Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter: Refugee from Indian Creek (1981); died on October 20, 1985 in West Hollywood, California.

From the guide to the Enrique Hank Lopez Papers, 1960-1985, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)

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