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Includes some 270 biographies, nearly 200 contemporary. Almost all entries include occupation and by state. Index rather wastefully repeats alphabetic listings in main section. Meier has several published works on Mexican Americans/Chicanos. Between 1930 and 1960, a new political generation of community leaders emerged out of the expanding Mexican-American barrios of the Southwest and organized the first significant civil rights movement by Mexican Americans in the US. Garcia's (history and Chicano studies, U. of Calif. at Santa Barbara) study--a political and intellectual history of this generation of Chicanos--focuses on its complex and dynamic leaders and their effort to capture first-class citizenship for Mexican Americans. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR