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.
To Facilitate the use of all types of
web browsers, accents have been omitted.
Researchers who would
like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can
contact the research center at www.chicano.ucla.edu
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