Man of Fire: Selected Writings

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Selected Chronology 1905 Born August 15 in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, Mexico. 1910 Mexican Revolution begins. 1911 Immigrates to the United States. 1913 Participates in his first labor action. 1917 Mother dies of influenza in Sacramento. 1921 Mexican Revolution ends. 1923–27 Attends Occidental College; graduates with a B.A. 1928 Marries Mae Taylor. 1929 Earns M.A. in history and political science from Stanford. Publishes “Life in the United States for Mexican People: Out of the Experience of a Mexican,” in Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work [Formerly National Conference of Charities and Correction] at the Fifty-Sixth Annual Session Held In San Francisco, California June 26–July 3, 1929 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 399–404. 1932–36 With Mae, establishes the Year-Long School, an experimental elementary school, in Jamaica, New York. 1936 Begins to serve as education specialist for the Pan-American Union; publishes analyses of labor and education in Latin America. 1939 Becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen. 1940 Heads the new Division of Labor and Social Information for the Pan-American Union. 1942 Bracero Program begins. 1946 Earns Ph.D. in history and public law from Columbia University. 1947 Resigns as head of the Division of Labor and Social Information of the Pan-American Union. Joins the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (later the National Agricultural Workers Union). 286 selected chronology Helps lead organizing drive and strike against the DiGiorgio Corporation ; strike lasts for thirty months. 1948 Writes “Poverty in the Valley of Plenty: A Report on the Di Giorgio Strike, May 14, 1948” (unpublished report). 1950 Writes “Mexican–United States Labor Relations and Problems,” presented at the Southwest Council on Education of SpanishSpeaking People, Albuquerque, New Mexico (unpublished essay), Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries. Leads a strike of tomato pickers in Tracy, California. 1951 Leads a strike of cantaloupe pickers in Imperial Valley, California. 1953 With H. L. Mitchell, co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, organizes strikes of sugar-cane workers and strawberry pickers in Louisiana. 1955 Receives grant from the Fund for the Republic, a branch of the Ford Foundation, to study the Bracero Program. 1956 National Farm Labor Union merges with the National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU). Publishes Strangers in Our Fields (Washington, D.C.: Joint United States–Mexican Trade Union Committee). Bolivian government awards Galarza the Order of the Condor of the Andes. 1959–60 AFL-CIO passes Galarza over for leadership of the newly chartered Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. Galarza leaves organized labor. Serves as advisor to the House Committee on Education and Labor. 1964 Bracero Program ends. 1965 Serves as Urban Affairs Consultant to the Ford Foundation. Gives the speech “How the Anglo Manipulates the MexicanAmerican ” at the Mexican-American Leadership Conference, Camp Max Strauss, Los Angeles. Writes “Community and the Child” (unpublished essay), Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries. 1966 Begins community organizing in Alviso, California. selected chronology 287 Publishes Economic Development by Mexican-Americans in Oakland, California: An Analysis and a Proposal (Berkeley, Calif.: Social Science Research and Development Corporation). 1967 Boycotts the conference of the Inter-Agency Committee on Mexican American Affairs; is elected chair of the Raza Unida Unity Conference in El Paso, Texas. Gives a speech entitled “The Farm Laborer: His Economic and Social Outlook” to the Western Region Migrant Health Conference , UCLA, June 26–28. 1968 With Julian Samora, co-founds the Southwest Council of La Raza (later the National Council of La Raza). 1969 Testifies before the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Gives a speech entitled “Minorities: The Mirror of Society” to the California Council for the Social Studies annual conference. Later published in Ghosts in the Barrio: Issues in Bilingual-Bicultural Education, ed. Ralph Pablano (San Rafael, Calif.: Leswing Publishing , 1973). 1970 Publishes “Chicano Studies: Research and Scholarly Activity” in Civil Rights Digest 3 (Fall 1970): 40–42. 1971 Receives honorary doctorate in human letters from Occidental College. Founds the Studio Laboratory for Bilingual Education, a resource center for the students and faculty of the San Jose Unified School District. Publishes Barrio Boy (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press). 1973 Receives a grant from the John Hay Whitney Foundation to study bilingual education. Publishes Alviso: The Crisis of a Barrio (San Jose, Calif.: Mexican American Community Service Agency). 1974 Writes “A Cautionary Memorandum for Bilingual Educators” (unpublished essay) Publishes...