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Finding Aid for the Magdalena Mora Scholarship Papers 1986 - 1994
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Description
The Magdalena Mora Scholarship is made available annually to incoming, eligible, University of California Chicana / Latina students.

This collection consists primarily of student scholarship applications and faculty evaluations between 1986 - 1989 and related papers.



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Background
The daughter of a Mexican immigrant family from Michoacan, Magdalena Mora received her B.A. in economics from U.C. Berkeley. Mora was a labor organizer, scholar activist, feminist and journalist. She was co-editor of Mexican Woman in the United States: Struggles Past and Present, published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. Mora was a doctoral student in the UCLA history department when she died of brain cancer in 1981. Casa Magdalena Mora at UC Berkeley is a residential learning program named in her honor.
Extent
Approx. 2 linear feet
Restrictions
For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Availability
Access is available by appointment for UCLA student and faculty researchers as well as independent researchers. To view the collection or any part of it, please contact the archivist at archivist@chicano.ucla.edu or the librarian at yretter@chicano.ucla.edu