Collection of papers on Taos County, New Mexico, 1937-1953 (bulk 1940-1944).

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Collection of papers on Taos County, New Mexico, 1937-1953 (bulk 1940-1944).

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This small collection contains materials relating to several of the studies/projects in Taos County and the surrounding areas, between 1937 and 1944. The collection includes reports and staff meeting minutes from the Taos County Project, materials on the Taos County Cooperative Health Association, agriculture and land issues, the Sangre de Cristo land grant, and community education issues (George I. Sánchez, "Supplement to Forgotten people"). Additionally, there are a few scattered issues of two publications from Austin, Texas, ACSSP newsletter and American GI forum news bulletin, 1953.

1 box (.35 cu. ft.)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 7424917

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Taos County Project.

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Sánchez, George Isidore, 1906-1972

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George I. Sánchez, writer, educator, and civil rights advocate, was born Jorge Isidoro Sánchez y Sánchez on October 4, 1906, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The son of Telésforo and Juliana Sánchez, he attended elementary and secondary public schools in New Mexico and worked as a school teacher, principal, and superintendent while earning his BA from the University of New Mexico (1930). Sánchez received his Master of Science degree in Educational Psychology and Spanish from the Universi...

Taos County Cooperative Health Association.

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By the mid 1930's, Taos County, primarily an agricultural area, was experiencing economic, education, health, and land-related problems. Local, state, federal and non-governmental agencies and organizations undertook studies of the area, hoping to find solutions to some of the problems. The Taos County Project, spearheaded by the University of New Mexico in 1940, with major funding from the Carnegie Corporation, sought to establish ways of relieving the "submarginal living conditions of Spanish-...