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Dear San Antonio, I'm Gone but not Lost: Letters to the World from your Voting Rights Hero Willie Velasquez on the Occasion of his Rebirth 1944 - 1988
by Gonzalez, Barbara Renaud
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Overview
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It all started when he saved a man from drowning in a flood. Determined to spare his humble neighborhood from chronic and often fatal flooding, young Willie Velasquez would go on to transform the American electoral landscape. Based on a true story, Dear San Antonio, I'm Gone but not Lost details Willie's remarkable journey from neighborhood hero to American voting rights champion. Through a series of provocative letters penned by Willie from the beyond, author Barbara Renaud Gonzalez offers a fresh view of the civil rights movement from a Latino perspective and shows that heroes are human, too. Follow Willie through Texas and the Southwest, the East Coast, and door-to-door as he works tirelessly to empower Latinos through the power of the vote.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Gonzalez, Barbara Renaud
- ISBN: 9781948955010
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.27
- Number Of Pages: 112
- Publication Year: 2018
Language:
English