Series 3. Program files, 1972-1982.

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Series 3. Program files, 1972-1982.

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Series 3 contains materials on advocacy issues of iterest to the Latino Project and its director Luis P. Diaz. Included are correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, and newsletters dealing with employment, bilingual education, access to educational opportunities, mental health and mental retadation, credit unions, housing, welfare rights, and Mexicans Americans. Of special note are materials pertaining to an investigation of hiring practices in Philadelphia's CETA program, 1975. Other items of interest include an analysis of public spending for bilingual education in Pennsylvania prepared by Latino Project assistant Juan Laureda, 1976; files concerning the Bilingual Education Task Force of Philadelphia in which Juan Laureda and Francesco D. de la Torre of the Latino Project were listed among members; and documents which Laureda collected from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, regarding DHEW's "Lau Compliance Effort" in the wake of the 1974 Supreme Court ruling in Lau v. Nichols. Additionally, the files reflect the work of the Latino Project in advocating for community mental health services for the Spanish-speaking, especially through the addition of bilingual personnel. Correspondents include the City of Philadelphia Office of Mental Health/Mental Retardation's Hispanic Task Force.

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