| They Called Me King Tiger: My Struggle for the Land and Our Rights Contributor(s): Tijerina, Reies Lopez (Author), Gutierrez, Jose Angel (Editor), Gutierrez, Jose Angel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1558853022 ISBN-13: 9781558853027 Publisher: Arte Publico Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2000 Annotation: Of these four, Chavez and Tijerina were the most connected to, and involved in, grass-roots community organizing, while the latter two were more dedicated to political change. But where Chavez consistently advocated non-violent protest, Lopez Tijerina increasingly turned to militancy. He and his followers even took up arms against the authorities. And of these four, Tijerina was the only one to spend significant time in prison for his acts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 00059426 |
| Series: Hispanic Civil Rights (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.54" W x 8.48" (0.72 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cultural Writing. Translated and edited by Jose Angel Gutierrez. All of the passion and commitment, as well as the flamboyant rhetoric of the 1960s, is preserved in this recollection of a life dedicated to a cause and transformed by continuous prosecution. Tijerina is the only member of a historical group of four Mexican-American Civil Rights activists to have penned his memoirs, perhaps in an effort to explain the trials and frustrations that brought him and his Federal Land-Grant Alliance members to break the law: reclaiming part of a national forest reserve as part of their inheritance; invading and occupying a courthouse, inflicting a gunshot wound on a deputy sheriff in the process; and challenging New Mexico and national authorities at every opportunity. But the acts that placed him in the most danger were also the ones that won the hearts and minds of many young Chicano activists. |