Talk:Jessie Lopez De La Cruz

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Change article title to Jessie De La Cruz

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I'm wondering if the article title should be Jessie De La Cruz rather than Jessie Lopez De La Cruz.

The back cover of the Gary Soto bibliography shows copies of various photo ID cards:

National Farm Workers Association issued to Jessie De La Cruz and dated May 1, 1965. The signature is not clear.
United Farm Workers issued to Jessie Fuentez De La Cruz and dated 9-28-72. She signed this Jessie Fuentez De La Cruz. (Fuentez was her step-father's name)
United Farm Workers issued to Jessie De La Cruz and expiring 09-09-96. She signed this Jessie De La Cruz.
United Farm Workers issued to Jessie De La Cruz and expiring 09-06-99. She signed this Jessie De La Cruz.
United Farm Workers issued to Jessie L. DELACRUZ and expiring 01-03-2001. She signed this Jessie L. De La Cruz.

Other evidence includes:

When she she gave congressional testimony on July 17, 1975 she started out with "My name is Jessie De La Cruz, ..."^[1]
The Gary Soto biography is titled "Jessie De La Cruz".

In support of the existing title are:

The Ellen Cantarow collection of histories has a section on De La Cruz titled "Jessie Lopez De La Cruz".
The ABC News report covering her death uses Jessie Lopez De La Cruz.^[2]

The UFW web site uses both "Jessie De La Cruz" and "Jessie Lopez De La Cruz" though I could not spot any articles written by people who seemed to know her personally and thus would have been familiar with which name(s) she used.^[3]

Unfortunately, Google has not scanned/indexed any contemporaneous news articles (1900 to 2000) that would have documented the name she used.^[4]

Google Books shows both names were in use.^[5]

Jessie De La Cruz
- Day, Frances Ann Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works (2003)
- Farrell, Brigid O' Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975 (1996)
- Ferriss, Susan The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement (1998)
- Bruns, Roger Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez: The Farm Workers' Fight for Rights and Justice (2013)
- Soto, Gary Jessie De La Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker (2000)
- Terkel, Studs Hope Dies Last: Keeping The Faith In Troubled Times (2013)
- Thompson, Jr., Charles D. The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy (2002)

Jessie Lopez De La Cruz
- Cantarow, Ellen Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change (1980)
- Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn American Women Activists' Writings: An Anthology, 1637-2001 (2002)
- Rudnick, Lois P. (editor) American Identities: An Introductory Textbook (2009)
- Ruiz, Vicki L. (editor) Latinas in the United States (2006)

Both forms used
- Alaniz, Yolanda. Cornish, Megan. Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance (2008)

I checked the first two pages of Google Books results. --Marc Kupper|talk 23:15, 20 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

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