Learn about how Mexican American women have advanced civil rights in Texas.
Cynthia E. Orozco is Professor of History and Humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, Ruidoso. She is a founder of the Chicana Caucus of the National Association for Chicano Studies and, as a graduate student at UCLA, helped to develop the fields of Chicana Studies and Chicana History. She is the author of No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 2009) and an associate editor of Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2006). She contributed 80 articles on Mexican American history to the New Handbook of Texas for the Texas State Historical Association and is an advisor to a Texas women’s history encyclopedia. Orozco’s most recent book, published in January 2020, is called Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020).
Founded in 2019, the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI), formerly the National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights, is the premier national organization dedicated to chronicling and advancing the Mexican American community’s civil rights efforts in the U.S. We envision communities where all Americans are inspired by the Mexican American civil rights legacy and see themselves as participants and transformational leaders in the ongoing struggle for social justice, inclusion, and equity.
This program is made possible in part with support from the City of San Antonio, Bexar County, and individual contributions to MACRI.
