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Lupé Anguiano Collection

 
 

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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Recent Submissions

  • Finding Guide 
    Taylor, Evelyn (2022-04-12)
    The Lupe Anguiano Collection Box Listing acts as a finding guide to the content of the collection. It provides detailed information of the content, such as titles to publications, authors, dates of publications, and helpful ...
  • Women Who Are Asking What They Can Do For their Country: Kimi Gray, Dr. Veronica Maz and Lupe Anguiano 
    Unknown author (The Renaissance Woman, 1989)
    Lupe Anguiano took a dream and turned it into a reality. She wants to reform the welfare system so that it may benefit the many women who dream of escaping it. Her main focus is to help these women find new dignity and ...
  • America's 100 Most Important Women from Super Stars to Super Inspiring 
    Unknown author (Ladies' Home Journal, 1988-11)
    Who are the most important women in America today? What kind of power and influence do they wield? The women here—chosen by the editors of Ladies' Home Journal—are a fascinating, sometimes surprising group that reflects ...
  • Lupe Anguiano: She Empowers the Poor 
    Clark, Carol (Today's Parish, 1985-02)
    When you meet Lupe Anguiano, the vigor of her step, the direct look in her eyes, the determination in her voice, tell you she is a woman of power and purpose. As the daughter of migrant workers from Mexico, she has learned ...
  • San Antonino's Bold Welfare Initiative 
    Unknown author (Hispanic Business: Women in Business, 1980-08)
    Welfare is a drag. No place to be. It's poverty. Two, three-year old kids running around a project apartment, without bottoms or tops, crying and carrying on desperately. Everything is unkempt: The kitchen, bedrooms, bottles ...