Luisa Moreno papers, 1940-1993.

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Luisa Moreno papers, 1940-1993.

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Articles about Moreno, correspondence, documents, photographs (39 slides and 40 black & white and colored prints). Very little is left of her personal papers because Moreno burned everything in fear of compromising anyone during the time she was being investigated by the FBI. Folder 14. Article by Albert Camarillo, "Historical patterns in the development of Chicano urban society: southern California, 1848-1930, " published 1977. Folder 15. Celia Alvarez Munoz. "If walls could speak / Si las paredes hablaran; Texas, 1991. And, "Stranger in one's land, " by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Clearinghouse, May 1970.

.5 linear foot (1 manuscript box)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Moreno Aznar, Luis

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Rodriguez de Bemis, Rosa.

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