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Show I1 TER VIE\.J: Cuellar Page 5 and followed on through with the GI Forum. I have never yet quit serving the organization and I went to sc ho o~ of course, that interrupted my social involvernen . somewhat in t e rms of my civic responsibilities. But I had done it all along so the involvement was there. With SER I saw the opportunity again to continue the same type of involvement but in a more systematic, more meaningful way with, and of course, with a means of mak: ng a livelihood. GC Then, is there a connect· on between SER and, say, PAS SO oi- GI Forum? RC Yes, Greg, I personally put it as a continLetion of the evolvement of institutions of i nstitutionalization am ngst the Mexican Americans. GC In what respect? RC In the respect ~hat everything has a history; and the MexicanAmericans, even though their history has not been written, at least not satisfact ory except for the Chicano M~nifesto and things like that, that you see. But there's a histor to ~he organizations of the Mexican-American. We can go back and trace some of the first o r ganizations. I'm sure that back in the beginning of the century our forefathers had their ~wn l ~ ttle groups, social, poli t ical, civic, whatever they wanted to call them, but mea ningfully, in 1927, of course, you bad the organization of Ll.JLAC, the League of Latin-American Ci t;izens who extended |
