Carmen Cortes Collection 1920's-1966

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Carmen Cortes Collection 1920's-1966

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00157/00157-P.html

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Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Libary

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League of United Latin American Citizens

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Organized in February of 1929 in Corpus Christi, TX. Composed mostly of Mexican-American citizens who believe that education is the foundation for the cultural growth and development for people of Latin American descent. Organization provides college scholarships, hot lunches for low-income and under privileged children, Christmas parties for under privileged and promotion of voter registration. From the description of Records, 1970-1989. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: ...

Cortes, Carmen Garza, 1913-

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Carmen Garza Cortes was born in 1913 in Mission San Juan, San Antonio, Texas. After her father Bartolo died in 1914, her mother Victoria married Julio Reyes, a farmen from McQueney, Texas. Carmen and her older sister grew up with Reyes' three daughters from his first marriage. Later, Reyes moved to Houston where he owned a grocery store on Avenue K in Houston's Magnolia Park subdivision. Carmen attended a local business college after high school. In 1933 she married Meli...