Luisa Moreno

Luisa Moreno

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee

Charlotta Bass worked on issues that also attracted Luisa Moreno, who was active in Afro-Chicano politics in Los Angeles during the 1930s-1950. No record shows that the two women ever met, but in 1943 both served on the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, a multiracial group that fought for the release of several Chicanos convicted of murder by an all-white jury making Bass and Moreno part of the same "constellation" of struggle.

Activism

In 1937, Bert Corona began working with labor leaders such as Josefina Fierro, Lloyd Seeliger and Bridges, and many others who provided a political education. He organized with the Longshoremen's Union in Los Angeles. With labor organizer Luisa Moreno, he helped shape the National Congress of Spanish Speaking People. In the 1940s, he was elected President of Local 26 of the Longshoremen's Union. Later, he joined La Asociacion Nacional Mexico-Americana (ANMA), which was one of the few organizations protesting the "McCarthy hysteria of the early 1950s".

"Workers cause"

The People's Weekly World of May 20 2000, carried a May Day Supplement. On page B, San Antonio activists paid tribute to contributors to the "worker's cause" Emma Tenayuca (1916-1999), John Inman (1896-1996), Manuela Soliz Sager (1911-1996), James Sager (1902-1979), Luisa Moreno (1906-1992).

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