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Bookmark or Share- Reies Lopez Tijerina: Preacher and Chicano activist who led anReies Lopez Tijerina was a Pentecostal preacher who became a Chicano activist and led a violent raid on a New Mexico courthouse nearly 50 years ago. Though he was admired by some students, his ...
- This Land Is My Land: The Story of Reies López TijerinaPolitics. In New Mexico during the 1960s, Reies López Tijerina transformed the issue of land rights into an issue of civil rights. He led a movement of Hispanos –people with Spanish, Mexican and Native American ancestry– who had lost their communal land to private landowners or government agencies and demanded it back. López Tijerina’s ...
- Reies Tijerina | Biography & Facts | BritannicaRole In: Poor People’s Campaign. Reies Tijerina (born September 21, 1926, Fall City, Texas, U.S.—died January 19, 2015, El Paso, Texas) was an American radical and civil rights activist who led a land-grant movement in northern New Mexico from 1956 to 1976. Dubbed “King Tiger” and “the Malcolm X of the Chicano Movement,” Tijerina ...
- 1967: Tierra Amarilla Land Grant & Courthouse RaidReies López Tijerina, 1971 Throughout his career in New Mexican land grant politics, Reies Tijerina frequently used this fable to inspire persistence in the face of impossible odds. As the leader of a grassroots Hispano land rights organization, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes Reales (The Federal Alliance of Land Grants), Tijerina has made an ...
- This Land Is My Land: The Story Of Reies López Tijerina : NPRIn northern New Mexico, Reies López Tijerina transformed the issue of land rights into an issue of civil rights. We take a look at the legacy of López Tijerina and his work.
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