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Bookmark or Share- Reies Tijerina - WikipediaReies López Tijerina (September 21, 1926 – January 19, 2015), was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. [1]
- Reies Tijerina, 88, Dies; Led Chicano Property Rights MovementThe onetime evangelist, Reies Tijerina, who died on Jan. 19 at 88, never had the tangible success of Cesar Chavez and his nonviolent campaign to improve the lot of migrant workers.
- Reies Tijerina - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework HelpAmerican civil rights activist Reies Tijerina led the Chicano (Mexican American) land-rights movement in northern New Mexico from the 1950s through the ’70s. He organized hundreds of Chicanos to demand the return of land that the United States annexed from Mexico in 1848 at the end of the Mexican-American War .
- Reies Lopez Tijerina: A dedicated defender of his peopleReies Lopez Tijerina and his men failed to exercise a citizens’ arrest warrant against district attorney Alfonso Sánchez on June 5, 1967, but the courthouse raid became one of the most important events in the long struggle by Mexicans to regain lands taken from them in 1848.
- REIES LOPEZ TIJERINA BIOGRAPHICAL | New Mexico Archives OnlineAudio and Video (1969-2002) contains recordings about Reies López Tijerina, his life history, and la Alianza Federal de los Mercedes. Impassioned speeches and “dinner talks” by Tijerina offer insight to la Alianza’s goals and missions as well as Tijerina’s investment in land grants.
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