McCarthyism, Mexican Americans, and the Los Angeles Committee for Protection of the Foreign-Born, 1950-1954

In this article, Jeffrey M. Garcilazo examines the formation and activities of the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign-Born during the McCarthy Era in the 1950s. The argument concerns the committee's effor ts to protect the rights of Mexican American working-class people in Southe rn California and the outcome of this activism. While preparing revisions f or this essay, the author suffered a medical accident that prevented him fr om completing his work. The Western Historical Quarterly publishes this ver sion, the last received from Jeffrey M. Garcilazo, as an acknowledgment of his important contributions to Mexican American and western history.