| LC control no. | n 86831606 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Acosta, Oscar Zeta |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Modesto (Calif.) |
| Located | San Francisco (Calif.) East Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1935-04-08 |
| Death date | 1974~ |
| Place of birth | El Paso (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Mexico |
| Affiliation | Modesto Junior College San Francisco State University San Francisco Law School |
| Profession or occupation | Attorneys Politicians Novelists Civil rights workers |
| Found in | nuc86-17592: His The revolt of the cockroach people, 1974 (hdg. on WRipC rept.: Acosta, Oscar Zeta; usage: Oscar Zeta Acosta) LC data base, 6-5-86 (hdg.: Acosta, Oscar Zeta) Wikipedia, viewed on Aug. 8, 2008: (Oscar Zeta Acosta; b. in El Paso, Texas, April 8, 1935; in 1974, Acosta disappeared while traveling in Mexico and is presumed dead; he was a Mexican American (Chicano) attorney, author, politician and Chicano Movement activist; he is most famously known as "Dr. Gonzo" in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; author of the semiautobiographical novel, Autobiography of a brown buffalo (1972), follwed by, The revolt of the cockroach people (1973), a fictionalized version of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium Committee's march in E. Los Angeles) Wikipedia, viewed February 27, 2021, under Oscar Zeta Acosta (After finishing high school, Acosta joined the United States Air Force. Following his discharge, he worked his way through Modesto Junior College. Acosta went on to San Francisco State University where he studied creative writing, becoming the first member of his family to get a college education. He attended night classes at San Francisco Law School and passed the state bar exam in 1966. In 1967, Acosta began working locally as an antipoverty attorney for the East Oakland Legal Aid Society. In 1968, Acosta moved to East Los Angeles and joined the Chicano Movement as an activist attorney, defending Chicano groups and activists.) Meier, Matt S. Mexican American biographies, 1988: pages 1-2 (Oscar Zeta Acosta, writer, lawyer, activist) |
| Associated language | eng |
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