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Theater
Gelb, Hal | June 10, 2002 issue

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The article presents information on the famous theater personality Luis Valdez, who founded El Teatro Compesino, the guerrilla theater. Valdez, the first Latino playwright to reach Broadway and the creator of the bellwether Hispanic film "Zoot Suit," had always been told his people were Yaquis from Sonora in northern Mexico, but he realized he knew very little about how they had come to be California Chicanos. Valdez founded El Teatro Campesino as an organizing and fundraising arm of the organization United Farm Workers during the 1965 grape strike in Delano, California, where he was born.

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VALDEZ, Luis; EL Teatro Campesino (Company); DRAMATISTS; ZOOT Suit (Film); AGRICULTURAL laborers; THEATER
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