They called me "King Tiger" : my struggle for the land and our rights

They called me "King Tiger" : my struggle for the land and our rights

  • Author: Lopez Tijerina, Reies
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • Serie: Hispanic Civil Rights
  • ISBN: 9781558853027
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611920505
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2000
  • Pages: 256

"They Called Me “King Tiger” is Reies López Tijerina’s visionary autobiography chronicling his activities during a tumultous period in U.S. History. Along with César Chávez, Rodolfo “Corky Gonzales, and José Ángel Gutiérrez, Reies López Tijerina was one of the acknowledged major leaders of the 1960s’ Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement.
Of these four, Chávez and Tijerina were the most connected to, and involved in, grass-roots community organizing, while the latter two were more dedicated to political change. But where Chávez consistently advocated non-violent protest, López Tijerina increasingly turned to militancy. He and his followers even took up arms against the authorities. And of the four, Tijerina was the only one to spend significant time in prison for his acts.
Tijerina is also the only member of this historical group to have penned his memoirs, perhaps in an effort to explain the trials and frustrations that brought him and his Federal Land Grant Alliance members to break the law: reclaiming part of a national forest reserve as part of their inheritance

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1. 1956
  • Chapter 2. My Life As A Fugitive
    • The Eisenhower Letter
    • My Apache Friends, July 4, 1960
    • Press Conference of 1961
    • Albuquerque, 1961
    • Manifest Destiny in Reserve
    • The Incorporation of the Alianza
    • Mexico: January 1964
    • The Community of San Luis and Taylor
    • The Letter of 153 Land Grant Communities
    • The Voice of Justice through the Radio
    • Margarito in Prison
    • My Trip to Spain in 1966
    • The Archives in Guadalajara
    • The Archives in Sevilla
    • The March of July 4, 1966
    • The Taking of San Joaquín, October 1966
    • Judge Howard Bratton
    • Myra Helen Jenkins
    • Judge Vearle H. Payne
    • Coyote, New Mexico
    • Coronado’s Bernalillo
    • My Wife in Jail
    • The State Prison
    • The Supreme Court
    • The Bratton Court in Las Cruces, New Mexico
    • The Impact of a Murder on the Tijerina Family
    • Dr. King and the Poor People’s Campaign
    • The March of the Poor
    • In Washington
    • Second Sentence
    • My Defense
    • The Victory
    • A Growing Police Conspiracy
    • The Albuquerque Journal
    • The News
    • Coyote
    • Prison
    • My Letter From Prison: August 15–17, 1969
    • The Second Trial
    • The First National Hero of Aztlán
    • The World of Prisoners
  • Chapter 3. 1970
    • Exiled to the Land of the Insane
    • The Biggest Psychopath of Them All
    • Discoveries and Revelations in Prison
    • The Value of Time
    • Fraternity and Harmony
    • The Family
    • Prison Psychiatrists
    • My Family Alone in New Mexico
    • Tijerina Park
    • Conditional Liberty
    • June 17, 1972
    • September 4, 1972
    • The Police
    • The Land Titles Are Returned
    • The Land
    • The Monument to Justice
    • The Land in Texas
    • The Rock of Fraternal Harmony: April 7, 1973
  • Chapter 4. 1974
    • January 1
    • January 2
    • January 3
    • January 4
    • January 5
    • January 6
    • January 7
    • January 9
    • January 10
    • January 11
    • January 15
    • January 17
    • January 22
    • February 1
    • February 2
    • February 4
    • February 6
    • February 7
    • February 8
    • February 11
    • February 25
    • March 7
    • March 10
    • March 14
    • March 16
    • March 17
    • March 18
    • March 19
    • March 21
    • March 22
    • March 23
    • March 27
    • April 6
    • April 7
    • April 11
    • April 15
    • April 20
    • April 24
    • April 30
    • May 1
    • May 5
    • May 15
    • May 17
    • May 18
    • May 23
    • June 4
    • June 5
    • June 8
    • June 9
    • June 10
    • June 11
    • June 12
    • June 25 and 26
    • June 29
    • June 30 and following
    • August 8
  • Chapter 5. 1975
    • January 4
    • January 8
    • January 11
    • February 4
    • February 24
    • February 25
    • February 27
    • February 29
    • March 20
    • April 5
    • April 23
    • June 25
    • June 28
    • June 29
    • July 31
    • August 3
    • August 4
    • October 4 and days following
    • October 13 and days following
    • December 26
  • Chapter 6. 1976
    • January 1
    • January 4
    • January 20–31
    • February 4
    • February 6
    • February 12
    • February 16
    • February 21
    • March 8
    • March 22
    • March 24
    • May 8
    • May 11
    • May 24
    • May 25
    • June 1
    • June 5
    • June 12
    • June 27
    • July 9
    • July 12
    • July 15
    • July 30
    • August 4
  • Chapter 7. The CIA

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