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Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional Archives
CEMA 30
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Description
Materials produced and collected by the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (CFMN), Inc., from its founding in the early 1970s
to present.
Background
The Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional, Inc. was founded by resolution at the 1970 National Issues Conference in Sacramento
California. The Founding President was Francisca Flores, a Chicana activist already well respected for her many decades of
community works. Recognizing that there were few organizations that met the needs of Latina women, nine resolutions were presented
to the full body calling for the establishment of a Chicana/Mexicana women's commission. The resolution called for a commission
that could direct it's efforts toward organizing and networking women that they might assume leadership positions within the
Chicano movement and in the community. Designed to disseminate news and information regarding the achievements of Chicana/Mexican
women, and promote programs that provide solutions for women and their families; the resolutions read as follows:
Extent
41 Linear Feet;
(1 carton, 73 document boxes, 7 half-document boxes, 17 cassettes, and 4 videos)
Restrictions
Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through
the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
Availability
The collection is open for research.