Page 5 - Unsung Herores of Social Justice - Unsung Heroes

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Amount per week on
which Anguiano lived
while organizing protests
around the country.
• Anguiano originally
wanted to be a nun.
• Anguiano left the church
and traveled the country
helping workers.
Anguiano
• She worked for three
presidents, furthering the advocated for
rights of women, Latinos, minorities and
and the poor. people living in

poverty.
nun. She traveled the country trying Anguiano also
to help however she could. Wherever worked under
she went, she saw people living in President Richard Nixon
poverty. Some needed government and President Ronald Reagan. She

assistance to get by. It was hard pushed for changes in welfare, so
for them to get jobs. She worked that people could get help finding
on programs that would help these jobs, rather than just a check. In
people find work. 1996, Congress passed a bill that
used many of her ideas. It reformed
These programs led to Anguiano
welfare programs so that people
working for President Lyndon B.
could support their families through
Johnson’s administration. In 1965,
employment.
she started working as an education
specialist for the Department of Anguiano also helped blaze a trail
Health, Education, and Welfare. for other women and Latinos to get
Welfare is a government involved in politics. She acted as a
program that provides money mentor to future activists.
to people living in poverty.
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