Talk: Grace Montañez Davis, Former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, in Conversation with Chicana Feminist and Activist Anna NietoGómez

Event Date: 
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 3:00pm
Event Location: 
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall

Grace Montañez Davis (b. 1926) became politically active in the early 1950s, working with the Community Service Organization, and later campaigned for co-founder Edward Roybal, who served as city councilman and then U.S Congressman. In 1967 she campaigned for Julian Nava, the first Latino elected to the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. In 1973, she was recruited by Mayor Tom Bradley, serving as director of human resources and from 1975-90 as deputy mayor—the only Mexican American woman to have filled this position. Join us as we discuss her career and celebrate her recent accomplishments.

Anna NietoGómez, a central figure in the early Chicana movement, is a Chicana feminist, writer, and educator. This event will be moderated by Dr. Virginia Espino, Program Coordinator for Latina/o History in the UCLA Library’s Center for Oral History Research.

Selections from the CSRC’s Grace Montañez Davis Collection are on view in the CSRC Library exhibition vitrine through December. A light reception will follow the discussion.

Latino Americans: 500 Years of History has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. This event the first in a series of CSRC programs for 2015-16 supported by this grant.

A recording of this event can be found on the UCLA CSRC YouTube channel.

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