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New Mexico Group To Honor Latino Scholar George I. Sanchez

New Mexico Group To Honor Latino Scholar
Roque Planas
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National Reporter, HuffPost

This undated image provided by Cynthia Kennedy shows pioneer Mexican American educator and activist George I. Sanchez sitting in one of his offices in N.M., before his days as a well-known advocate in Texas and California. The Albuquerque-born scholar, known throughout the Southwest and who has a dozen of so schools named after him in Texas and California, is unknown in his birth state. New Mexico does not have a school named after Sanchez, who died in 1972, even though Sanchez developed his theories about school inequalities after writing about New Mexico's Hispanic population. (AP Photo/Cynthia Kennedy)
This undated image provided by Cynthia Kennedy shows pioneer Mexican American educator and activist George I. Sanchez sitting in one of his offices in N.M., before his days as a well-known advocate in Texas and California. The Albuquerque-born scholar, known throughout the Southwest and who has a dozen of so schools named after him in Texas and California, is unknown in his birth state. New Mexico does not have a school named after Sanchez, who died in 1972, even though Sanchez developed his theories about school inequalities after writing about New Mexico's Hispanic population. (AP Photo/Cynthia Kennedy)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A group of retired educators are working to honor a Mexican-American scholar who is celebrated across the country but is virtually unknown in New Mexico, where he was born.

An ad hoc committee is pushing a series of projects aimed at honoring the late-George I. Sanchez, a scholar credited with helping bring attention to the plight of poor Mexican-Americans in the 1930s. Those projects include naming a street and building after Sanchez, said Luisa Duran, a retired University of New Mexico bilingual education professor.

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