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Google Doodle is marking on Tuesday the life and legacy of Raoul A. Cortez, a pioneer of Spanish-language radio and broadcasting in the U.S. and a civil rights activist, on what would have been his 118th birthday. Cortez, who was Mexican American, founded the first Spanish-language radio station as well as the first TV station aimed at Hispanics.
Later, seeing a dearth in television aimed at Hispanics, Cortez founded KCOR-TV Channel 41 in 1955. It was similarly the first Latino-run Spanish-language broadcast in the U.S. Cortez was also an ardent civil rights activist and leader in the Mexican American community in Texas. As one of the directors of the League of United Latin American Citizens , he oversaw the Delgado v.
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