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students with career and college counseling, financial aid and other assistance, and is today one of the largest nonprofit agencies in the Latino community. In 1963 Dr. Pantoja directed a project of the Puerto Rican Forum that resulted in the establishment of the Puerto Rican
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welder in a wartime factory. She subsequently won a scholarship to
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403:"A Guide for Action in Intergroup Relations",
365:In 2002, Pantoja published her autobiography,
427:"Cultural Pluralism, A Goal to be Realized",
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