Collection Highlights - National Hispanic Heritage Month
Our latest Collection Highlights are on display in the glass case in the library lobby. We are featuring highlights from our collection in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15). National Hispanic Heritage Month pays "tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society" (hispanicheritagemonth.gov).
The items on display are:
- Hector P. Garcia: everyday rhetoric and Mexican American civil rights by Michelle Hall Kells - Stacks E 184 M5 K45 2006
- All rise: Reynaldo G. Garza, the first Mexican American federal judge by Louise Ann Fisch - Stacks KF 373 G35 F57 1996
- My beloved world by Sonia Sotomayor - Stacks KF 8745 S67 S67 2013
- Latinos and American law: landmark Supreme Court cases by Carlos R. Soltero - Stacks KF 4757.5 L38 A52 2006
- Mendez v. Westminster: school desegregation and Mexican-American rights by Philippa Strum - Stacks KF 4155 S77 2010
- The coming of justice to California: three documents translated from the Spanish by Adelaide Smithers - (This item is housed in our Rare Books Collection) Rare KFC 78 C65 1963
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012 - Stacks E 184 S75 H57 2013 (and is also available to all free online as well - see the call number link)