Pioneering Los Angeles politician Gloria Molina has announced that she has terminal cancer. Molina was the first Latina elected to the California Legislature, the L.A. City Council, and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
from high school. In 2010, she supported the county’s boycott of Arizona after that state enacted a stringent immigrant law known as SB 1070.growing up speaking Spanish at home, and learning from her parents’ example.
“My father was a construction worker; my mom stayed at home, raised all of the kids,” Molina said. “I was always reminded that I was the oldest and so I had to set the example for the family.” She initially became involved in politics as a student at East Los Angeles College, participating in the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War.
“Of course, eventually that led to getting involved more politically and making sure who was elected and getting involved in those kinds of issues,” Molina said in the oral history. “And then it became a whole new world for me.”
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