WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12
PROGRAM # 8040 12:00 PM PST.
Remembering a Trailblazer.
Judge Armando Rodríguez, an influential figure in the San Joaquin Valley and California and a trailblazer in Chicano politics, died this week. In the 1960s, he began his career as a lawyer for a legal aid agency for farmworkers and was a leading member for Mexican American civil rights organizers. He broke ground becaming the first Latino elected to the Fresno county government and the first in Fresno’s municipal court bench. For two decades, he served on Radio Bilingüe’s governing board.
Guests: Judge Armando Rodríguez, Fresno, CA (recordings); Jerry Santillan, Board Chair Radio Bilingüe, Assistant Imperial County Executive Officer Emertius, Brawley, CA; Jose Villarreal, Board of Director, Radio Bilingüe, Lawyer, Sanger, CA; Leonor Lizardo, Board Vice-Chair, Radio Bilingüe, Development Consultant, Los Angeles, CA; Domingo Zapata, Board Secretary, Radio Bilingüe, Executive Director, Fresno County Hispanic Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, Fresno, CA
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