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x Abbreviations Used in the Text AWOC: Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee CAA: Community Action Agency CAP: Community Action Program CISCO: Chicano-Indian Study Center of Oregon CORE: Congress of Racial Equality CSO: Community Services Organization D-Q University: Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University ESL: English as a Second Language GAO: General Accounting Office GED: General Equivalency Diploma HEP: High School Equivalency Program HUD: Department of Housing and Urban Development LULAC: League of United Latin American Citizens MAYO: Mexican American Youth Organization MCHA: Marion County Housing Authority MEChA: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (Chicano Student Movement of the Southwest) NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NFWA: National Farm Workers Association OCC: Oregon Council of Churches OCR: Office of Civil Rights OEO: Office of Economic Opportunity OJT: On-the-Job Training ORO: Oregon Rural Opportunities PAVLA: Papal Volunteers for Latin America PCUN: Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Northwest Tree Planters and Farmworkers United) PPS: Portland Public Schools SB 677: Senate Bill 677 (Oregon Legislature) SCLC: Southern Christian Leadership Conference SNCC: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee UFW: United Farm Workers (United Farm Workers of America, AFLCIO ) UFWOC: United Farm Workers Organizing Committee VISTA: Volunteers in Service to America (an OEO program) VIVA: Volunteers in Vanguard Action (a Hillsboro organization) VML: Valley Migrant League WVIP: Willamette Valley Immigration Project ...

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