CENTER, COLORADO. SU VOTO CUENTA! - Tecno-Libro

Decades of economic subjugation. Overt voter suppression. A history of Ku Klux Klan harassment going back to the early 20 th Century. Education denied based on skin color or ethnicity. Governing boards in the grip of white businesses. A culture relegated to second-class citizenship by government-sanctioned decree. Yet a people so resilient, so committed to family and to community that they have claimed their place at the decision-making tables of their town. Thinking Mississippi? Georgia? South Carolina? Think again. Meet the mejicano people of Center, Colorado. THi is out story, specifically the story of fifteen intense years of action (1970-1985) in which mejicanos claimed their right to forge their own destiny. .The Colorado town of Center was founded early in the 1900s as an Anglo town focused on farming for profit. Shortly thereafter mejicanos , villagers from northern New Mexico , came to the town willing to work to sustain t