Adela Sloss-Vento
Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer
By (author) Arnoldo Carlos Vento
Publication date:
18 May 2017Length of book:
260 pagesPublisher
Hamilton BooksISBN-13: 9780761869139
This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes available of her participation in this unknown and unpublicized civil rights movement. It is a realistic portrayal of an exclusionist semi-colonial society that the reader discovers; a Jim Crow type of political and racial existence against all people of Mexican descent. It represents Sloss-Vento’s lifelong struggle for economic and social equality. Adela Sloss-Vento’s role as a Civil Rights pioneer antedates Dr. Anna Pauline Murray by eight years and Martin Luther King by twenty-eight years. She places her mark in history as a leader, not only for the first seminal Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement of Texas but the first woman and voice in an early, if not the earliest Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
In this work [Arnoldo Carlos Vento] contributes to our knowledge of key women in Mexican American history. . . . Mr. Vento has written a book that will help shed some light into the very important life of this civil rights activist.