Spanish-Americans: the New Militants

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Rising Anger of Spanish-Americans

The nation's second largest minority group is stirring from a century of lethargy and political impotence. Americans of Spanish heritage, next to Indians the poorest and most oppressed of this country's minorities, and next to blacks the most numerous, are showing a new and unaccustomed militancy as they strive to make their voices heard across the land. Behind this militancy is anger and trust rat ion over social and economic conditions that can best be described as feudal.

Their voices are beginning to be heard in a number of ways, through riots and disturbances in several cities, strikes in farm fields, and political activism. Washington is showing a new awareness of the voting potential of 10 million Spanish-speaking people in the United ...

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