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Bookmark or Share- 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.
- 1967: Tierra Amarilla Land Grant & Courthouse RaidOn June 5, 1967, Reies López Tijerina, also known as King Tiger, led the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants) to storm the Tierra Amarilla courthouse and arrest District Attorney Alfonso Sanchez, free detained members of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes, and raise awareness of the New Mexico land grant movement of the ...
- REIES LOPEZ TIJERINA preacher, activist Page | 1 - University of VirginiaReies Lopez Tijerina grew up in different locations in Texas. At 17, Tijerina was ordained Pentecostal minister from an Assemblies of God Bible institute near El Paso. 1, but he never received a formal education. He turned to activism through his experiences with the Church. Courtesy of United Press International Tijerina’s Resistance
- 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 Tijerina | Biography & Facts | BritannicaReies Tijerina, American radical and civil rights activist who led a land-grant movement in northern New Mexico from 1956 to 1976. He organized hundreds of Chicanos to demand repatriation of land confiscated by Anglo surveyors in violation of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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