The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Galarza, Ernesto, 1905-1984

LC control no.n 50015479
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingGalarza, Ernesto, 1905-1984
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1905-08-15
Death date1984-06-22
Place of birthJalcocotán (Mexico)
Place of deathSanta Clara (Calif.)
Profession or occupationAuthors Scholars
Found inHis The Roman Catholic church ... 1928.
His Barrio boy, c2011: ECIP data view (Ernesto Galarza (1905-1984); civil rights and labor activist, scholar, and pioneer during decades when Mexican Americans had few public advocates; b. in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, Mexico; at age 8, emigrated to Sacramento, Calif. and worked as farm laborer; one of Stanford's first Chicano alumni; M.A., 1929; Ph.D. in history from Columbia Univ., 1944; returned to Calif. and during 1950s joined effort to create first multiracial farm workers' union; books include Merchants of labor (1964); Barrio boy (1971); was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature)
California death index, via Ancestry.com, October 31, 2013 (Ernesto Galarza; born August 15, 1905, Mexico; died June 22, 1984, Santa Clara)
Associated languageeng