Chicano movement

"Education Not Eradication" - Chicano high school walkouts, March 6th-9th, 1968. Photo credit: Chicano Student News, courtesy California Library for Social Studies and Research — in Los Angeles, California.

Students have long played a prominent role in social and political activism. On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a b…

1970 Chicano Moratorium 45 years ago today in East LA, 30,000 marched in the Chicano Moratorium in protest of the Vietnam War, and in an act of self-determination for Chicanos. Historians believe the...

During Protest Over Apprehension of Spanish Americans in Denver Bus Bombing Case

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Through February 10, 2019, The Autry in Griffith Park - Published in Los Angeles from 1967-1977, the influential bilingual newspaper La Raza provided a voice to the Chicano Rights Movement.

The Story of the Brown Berets The personal story of David Sanchez, 19-year-old leader of the Chicano Power Brown Beret movement is about as vivid an illustration as one can find of how once complacent East Los Angles kids have been driven into open, violent rebellion against establishment indifference, bad schools and police brutality...