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In 1900 Celedonio Mondragon and several other San Luis valley residents formed the Sociedad Proteccin Mtua de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU) to help prevent the usurpation of Hispanic land ownership and to combat discrimination against wage laborers. The SPMDTU rapidly grew into a tri-state organization with sixty-five local concilios (lodges) in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Hispanic mutual aid societies proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, providing such services as religious aid, burial funding, low-cost insurance, and fraternal support.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: La Sociedad
• Subtitle: Guardians of Hispanic Culture Along the Rio Grande
• Author: Jose A. Rivera
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 212
• EAN: 9780826348944
• ISBN: 9780826348944
• ID: 06377889
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Weight: 498 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 161 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. February 2011

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