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Lupe Anguiano Helps
the Poor Find Jobs
Lupe Anguiano knew the struggles became a nun in the Roman Catholic
of Mexican workers well. Growing Church. As a nun, she wanted to
up in the 1930s, her family faced help the poor. Poor people and
those struggles firsthand. Each May, minorities faced many problems.
they left their home in Colorado for One big problem in 1963 was racial
California. They worked the crops discrimination in housing. Anguiano
there, picking fruits and vegetables. fought hard against laws that would
In December, they returned to make it easier for landlords to
Colorado. It was hard work, and it discriminate. But at the time, nuns
meant Anguiano missed a lot of were not supposed to be social
school. But she still managed to activists. She continued her work
graduate from high school. even though church leadership told
her to stop.
In 1949, when she
was 20 years In 1964, Anguiano decided to leave
old, Anguiano the church and give up her work as a
A migrant family
on the road in
California
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