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GUTIERREZ, JOSE ANGEL (b. )

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Jos&#; Angel Gutierrez,along with Cesar Chavez, Reies Tijerina, and Corky Gonzales, stands out as an important leader in the Chicano movement of the late s and early s. He was born into a middle-class family on October 25, , in Crystal City, Texas.

Biography of jose angel gutierrez chicano movement He is the founder of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas Arlington where is a tenured professor.

When he was still in grade school, his father died and young Gutierrez was forced to work in the fields to help support his family. Despite facing such hardships early in his life, Gutierrez emerged as a bright student and gifted leader; he served as the student body president of his high school. Gutierrez earned a bachelor's degree in political science in from Texas A&M University in Kingsville and a master's degree in the same field two years later from St.

Mary's University in San Antonio.

While at St. Mary's Gutierrez continued his role as a student leader by helping to organize a chapter of the Mexican American Youth Organization. By Gutierrez had returned to Crystal City, where he organized the Mexican American population through a new political party, La Raza Unida.

Biography of jose rizal Angel Gutierrez has been President and Chief Operating Officer of the Greater Dallas Legal and Community Development Foundation since He is both a licensed attorney in Texas and several federal jurisdictions and a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and founder of the Center for Mexican American the University of Texas.

With a mobilized Mexican American electorate, Gutie;rrez was elected to the city council and later to the school board. From these positions of power, Gutierrez and other Mexican American leaders enacted changes in the school system, including the introduction of bilingual and bicultural education programs, and improved relations between the Chicano and Anglo communities.

By the mids Gutierrez was less involved in politics, but he continued to represent his community.

In he was elected to a judgeship in Zavala County. He also continued his education, earning a doctorate in political science in from the University of Texas.

Biography of jose angel gutierrez José Angel Gutiérrez, is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States.

Gutierrez served as a judge until when he resigned to take a teaching position, first at Colegio Cesar Chavez in Mt. Angel, Oregon, and later at Western Oregon State College. By , however, Gutierrez was back in Texas working on his law degree (which he earned in ) at the University of Houston. In he ran unsuccessfully for Lloyd Bentsen's vacated U.S.

Senate seat. Gutierrez was a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Arlington in

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