Oscar Zeta Acosta, American lawyer and politician (died 1974)

Oscar Zeta Acosta

Mexican-American attorney, politician and novelist

Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), and was friends with American author Hunter…