Lupe Anguiano was born in La Junta, Colorado, but spent her childhood in Saticoy, California, working with her family as a migrant field worker. Ms. Anguiano started her adult life as a nun, but her career path changed after meeting Cesar Chavez and participating in the grape farm worker’s strike in Delano, California in 1965. She began a career dedicated to social justice and in 1977, was elected as a delegate to the First National Women’s Conference, where she joined Jean Stapleton, Bella Abzug, and Coretta Scott King in reading the Declaration of American Women. Ms. Anguiano established the National Women’s Employment and Education Model Program in Texas, which encouraged women on welfare to become successful in the working world and later joined environmentalists in the next decade in a variety of causes concerning her beloved Ventura County. The collection contains artifacts, documents, newspaper articles, and photographs documenting these events. See also the Archives' Environmental Collections for Ms. Anguiano's work in that community.
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