Recently, the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest “learned societies” in the U.S. with deep roots in the nation’s founding, recognized William C. “Willie” Velasquez in its first class of Legacy Honorees. According to the Academy: The Legacy Recognition Program recognizes individuals who were not members of the Academy and whose accomplishments were overlooked or undervalued due to their race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.
Velasquez’s “classmates” include luminaries such as legendary civil rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, pioneering Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and groundbreaking environmentalist author Rachel Carson.
Read more here: https://unidosus.org/blog/2024/10/23/why-a-long-overdue-recognition-of-latino-voter-advocate-willie-velasquez-matters/
