civil rights NewsTaco September 8, 2016

Former New Mexico justice, founder of Hispanic rights group dies

*So much of U.S. Latino politics stands on the shoulders of people like Sosa. I found this telling: he died in the adobe house where he was born. His father built the house in Las Cruces, NM. VL

associated_press_logo_1By Associated Press Albuquerque Journal (3.5 minute read)

Dan Sosa Jr., a former New Mexico Supreme Court justice and one of the founders of a national Hispanic civil rights organization, died Saturday at the age of 92.

Sosa, who served on the state’s high court from 1975 to 1991, died after a lengthy illness in the adobe house where he was born, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported. It was a home built by his grandfather in the 1860s.

“What other chief justice in the world can go back and live where he was born?” Sosa asked in a 2006 interview with New Mexico State University’s College of Business.

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New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts spokesman Barry Massey confirmed Sosa’s death to The Associated Press on Wednesday. READ MORE

[Photo courtesy of New Mexico State University]

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