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2. Mimi Lozano - Wikipedia

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   Mimi Lozano (born 1933) is an American educator and activist for Hispanic rights who co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research and is the editor and publisher of Somos Primos, an online monthly publication dedicated to Hispanic heritage. She was named the 2006 Woman of the Year by Costa Mesa, California Assemblyman ...

3. List of land-grant universities - Wikipedia

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   Alabama A&M University. Auburn University (designated as a land-grant college in 1872 under the name Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) Tuskegee University (private) Though Alabama A&M is Alabama's official 1890 Morrill Act institution, the mission and unique history of Tuskegee are so similar to those of the 1890 institutions that ...

4. Hispanic-serving institution - Wikipedia

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   A Hispanic-serving institution ( HSI) is defined in U.S. federal law as an accredited, degree-granting, public or private nonprofit institution of higher education with 25% or higher total undergraduate Hispanic or Latino full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment. [ 1][ 2] In the 2021–22 academic year, 572 institutions met the federal ...

5. 1996 California Proposition 209 - Wikipedia

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   Elections in California. Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment ...

6. California Land Act of 1851 - Wikipedia

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   The California Land Act of 1851 (9 Stat. 631 ), enacted following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the admission of California as a state in 1850, established a three-member Public Land Commission to determine the validity of prior Spanish and Mexican land grants. [ 1] It required landowners who claimed title under the Mexican government to ...

7. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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   California Senator William M. Gwin's Act of March 3, 1851 created the Public Land Commission, whose purpose was to determine the validity of Spanish and Mexican land grants in California. [119] On February 19, 1853 Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany filed petitions for the return of all former mission lands in the state.