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Charley Trujillo
Charley Trujillo (born November 6, 1949) is a Chicano novelist, editor, publisher, and filmmaker. He is known for his novel and documentary ''Soldados: Chicanos in Việt Nam''. Early life Charley Trujillo was born in Hanford, California in 1949, as one of seven children of Raymond and Guadalupe Trujillo. Raymond's family moved to Sweetwater, Texas from Silao Guanajuato, Mexico in 1908. Guadalupe's family had been in Texas since before the Texas Annexation in 1848. Raymond moved to California when he was one year old, received a sixth grade education, and eventually served in World War II. Guadalupe had only received a second grade education and moved to California when she turned fourteen. The family settled in Corcoran, California where they picked cotton. Charley Trujillo was raised in Corcoran, in a typical Latino farm working family. He worked in the fields with his family and attended Corcoran High School. Growing up in the 1960s he endured corporal punishment from the edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanford, California
Hanford is a city and county seat of Kings County, California, located in the San Joaquin Valley region of the greater Central Valley (California), Central Valley. The population was 53,967 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Today's Hanford was once north of Tulare Lake, historically the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River. The area was inhabited by the Tachi Yokuts people, Yokuts Indians for several thousand years prior to Euro-American contact. They occupied locations along watercourses such as creeks, springs and seep areas (such as Slough (hydrology), sloughs), along perennial and seasonal drainages, as well as flat ridges and terraces. Since the annexation of California after the Mexican–American War, Mexican-American War, the locality was settled by Americans and immigrants as farmland, broadly referred to as "Mussel Slough". The earliest dated grave in the area was that of a young Alice Spangler who was initially buried in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
