A Clamor for Equality: Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P. Ramírez

by Paul Bryan Gray

Book Overview

A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ram rez published a Spanish-language newspaper, El Clamor P blico. Ram rez called upon a Mexican American majority to seize control of their destiny by electing themselves to public office. Ram rez was a radical liberal in a town controlled by white conservative Southerners with antebellum values. Nevertheless, from 1855 to 1859, he railed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727637
• ISBN13: 9780896727632
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.3"