Latino scholar George I. Sanchez regularly is left out of books on the civil rights movement. Even people in his birth-state hardly know his name.
A new biography seeks to change that.
This month, Carlos Blanton released his long-awaited book, "George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration." The Texas A&M University history professor is hoping the biography finally places Sanchez in his proper place in history.
Born in Albuquerque in 1906, Sanchez worked as a school teacher in New Mexico before becoming one of the nation's top scholars on education. His writings later were used by lawyers in key desegregation cases.
There are a dozen or so schools in Texas and California named in his honor. However, there are none in New Mexico.
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