LULAC has decided to include more people and more areas of the country. They want to expand to include more than just Mexican Americans and want to bring more women in too. - - Donna Poisl
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON — It's the country's oldest U.S. Latino civil rights group. Its members were behind key Supreme Court battles and famously hosted President John F. Kennedy in Houston, Texas the night before he was assassinated.
Since 1929, the League of United Latin American Citizens has remained largely active in the American Southwest and Midwest, where the bulk of the nation's Mexican-American population has historically resided.
But this weekend the civil rights group known as LULAC will host a women's conference in Boston. It will be its first ever national conference in New England.
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