In protest of the threatened expulsion of students who spoke out against physical abuse from a coach charged with disciplining students, in addition to negative portrayals of the Mexican War, the Mexican Revolution, and Pancho Villa, the students struck, refusing to attend classes. There, he learned a sense of discipline, but also experienced racism. He remained in the Texas public system until the fourth grade, when his mother, disgusted with the mistreatment of Mexican-American and Mexican immigrant students, sent him to Harwood Boys School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There his command of English, which his mother had taught him, caused him to excel. ( July 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭorona began his education at Mexican Protestant kindergartens, but enrolled in public school in the first grade. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. "Religion, specifically Protestantism, was also very significant in my socialization and in influencing my own later political activity." Education According to Corona, "We believed the assassins were agents of President Obregón, who feared that the villistas were planning to reorganize and overthrow the government." After his father's death, the Corona family returned to El Paso, where young Humberto grew up surrounded by tales of the Revolution and the Protestant social networks of his mother and grandmother. There he and several other Villistas were murdered while attempting to extinguish a forest fire. After several months, Noé Corona secured a position with the federal government as a forest ranger in Texcoco. He longed to return to Mexico, however, and in 1922, when the Obregón government granted the family's petition for amnesty, they returned to Chihuahua. In El Paso, his father worked in the logging and rock cutting industries, while simultaneously continuing clandestine revolutionary activities. They settled into a home in the predominantly Mexican Segundo Barrio neighborhood where their four children Aurora, Humberto, Orlando, and Horacio were born. His parents married in the Juarez customs house under Villa's sponsorship. The family emigrated to El Paso, Texas in 1914 or 1915, marrying at about the same time. His maternal grandmother was a physician. His mother, Margarita Escápite Salayandía, was a Chihuahua schoolteacher educated at Protestant missionary schools.
Noé Corona was an anarcho-syndicalist and member of Partido Liberal Mexicano. By the time of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, he was known as El Viejo ("the Old Man"), and was well-known and respected as a veteran activist.Ĭorona's father Noé Corona was a commander in Francisco Villa's División del Norte during the Mexican Revolution, which he joined after members of his family were killed in a massacre at Tomochic, Chihuahua. He organized workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and fought on the behalf of immigrants. Throughout his long career, he worked with nearly every major Mexican-American organization, founding or co-founding several. Humberto Noé Corona (– January 15, 2001) was an American labor and civil rights leader.
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