‘Forgotten’ Latino scholar may get Albuquerque school
*We posted a story a couple of months ago about a biography of George I. Sanchez. It had mixed reactions. Some people believe he was a champion of Latino education and land rights, while others fault him for his opposition to undocumented migration – what Sanchez is said to have called the “wet migration.” VL
By Russell Contreras, Santa Fe New Mexican
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A noted Mexican-American scholar and civil rights advocate who is virtually unknown in his hometown of Albuquerque may finally get a New Mexico school named after him.
An Albuquerque Public Schools committee voted Wednesday to name a new Kindergarten through 8th-grade school in honor of George I. Sanchez.
The legendary educator was born in Albuquerque in 1906, and worked as a teacher in New Mexico before becoming one of the nation’s most influential Latino scholars. His 1940 classic “Forgotten People” was one of the first studies to document how Hispanics were losing land and influence to poverty.
A dozen or so schools in Texas and California are named after Sanchez. However, there are none in New Mexico.
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