Baca, Herman, 1943-

Scope Note: 670 __ |a Herman Baca Papers, 1964-2013. Finding aid viewed online, September 10, 2019: |b abstract (The papers of Herman Baca, a National City, California, Chicano rights activist.) biography (Herman Baca was born on April 5, 1943, in Los Lentes, New Mexico. His family moved to National City, California, where Baca attended Sweetwater Union School District schools through high school. Starting in the printing trade business after high school, he worked in a few local shops before opening his own private business, Aztec Printing, in 1969. With the emerging Chicano movement in the 1960s, Baca became involved in local electoral politics with a Chicano perspective. His father’s participation in New Mexico’s intense electoral politics influenced his development and transformation in California from a believer in the two-party political system into an independent Chicano activist committed to self-determination and human rights. Baca organized the San Diego County chapter of La Raza Unida Party, a national third-party effort to increase the participation of the Chicano community as both registered voters and political candidates. In 1975, he organized and was founding chairman of the Committee on Chicano Rights (CCR). The CCR established itself as a community-based, non-profit, non-government funded, volunteer membership organization committed to developing social and political awareness in the Chicano/Mexicano/Latino communities.)

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