Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Luisa Moreno was a champion of civil rights for Spanish-speaking people in the United States.  She was vice-president of the largest CIO union, the United Cannery, Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America, and was the first Latina to hold a national union office.

Vicki Ruiz has edited four anthologies, including Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History. Her latest book, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 2oth-Century America, will be published this fall.

This lecture is part of the series "What is Latina/Latino Studies?" sponsored by the UIUC Latina/Latino Studies Program.

Cosponsored by: Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Women's Studies Program, LaCasa Cultural Latina, Office of Minority Student Affairs, Office of Women's Programs, University YMCA