LULAC, Young Lords, UFW, and other very meaningful groups have already been mentioned in our class. However I'm still waiting to hear about NALEO. Which is the National Association of Elected Latino Officials. They are a non-partisan groups whose goal is to integrate Latinos s programs promoting the integration of immigrants into American society, developing future leaders among Latino youth, providing assistance and training to Latino elected and appointed officials and by conducting research on issues important to the Latino population. Right now, they are very involed with the whole voting process and are trying to get many non-English speakers to vote in the upcoming election.
Another note worthy group still unmentioned is the Congressional Hispanic Caucuss. Which aims to make improvements in the U.S. and Puerto Rico which affect Hispanic Communities. One of thier notable members has been Bill Richardson, who was the chair in 1984.
The groups I've mentioned didn't come about until 1976 which is perhaps the reason why we haven't heard much about them in class. We've seemed to be grogressing chronologically and seem to be at around the early 1970's at this point. The only reason I am introducing these two groups into the discussion is because, I've usually heard about them in the same context as the other groups like LULAC and UFW and would like to learn more about the histories of the two groups.
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The groups NALEO and the hispanic Caucus both seem like interesting pieces of latino studies. I think we probably will go over them in class as they both seem integral to latino political progress in the United States. Thanks for bringing them up because if we don't go over them in class, I'd definitely like to learn about them on my won time.
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