Oral history interview with Richard A. Santillan : oral history transcript / By Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1989.

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Oral history interview with Richard A. Santillan : oral history transcript / By Carlos Vasquez, University of California, Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1989.

Santillan discusses his early life and education in Los Angeles and details his activities and advocacy in various organizations, especially Californios for Fair Representation, and his reapportionment-related work as director, Chicano Reapportionment Project, Rose Institute of State and Local Government, Claremont, California.

265 p. ; 29 cm.

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Californios for Fair Representation.

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State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)

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Administrative History Documentation of California state government with the use of oral history techniques began in 1969 with the Earl Warren Era Oral History Project. It was initiated by the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library and "centered on key developments in politics and government administration at the state and county level, innovations in criminal justice, public health, and social welfare from 1928-1953." ...

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Santillan, Richard

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Richard A. Santillan, born 1920. In 1981 as director of the Chicano Reapportionment Project, Rose Institute of State and Local Government, Claremont, California, he organized a series of conferences which culminated in the creation of Californios for Fair Representation, perhaps the best organized and most articulate group addressing reapportionment as it affected the Chicano community in the state of California. He has been a longtime activist and advocate in the Mexican-American community of C...

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