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Tomás Rivera: A Biography of a Trailblazing Leader and Scholar

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Tomás Rivera, the first Hispanic person to lead a University of California school, was born in December 1935 in Crystal City, Texas, to migrant farmworkers. His upbringing was marked by hard work and limited resources, but his parents instilled...

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