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Cinco de Mayo isn’t a really popular holiday in Mexico, believe it or not. But since the 1960s, it’s become widely celebrated in the United States due to a civil rights movement called the Chicano ...

Events in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles are set to mark the 55th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium, a pivotal moment in the Chicano civil rights movement. A deadly moment: On Aug. 29, 1970, ...

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OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A new exhibit now open at the Oakland Museum celebrates the Chicano movement. It was a push for fair treatment, equal opportunity, civil rights and cultural appreciation of ...

When filmmaker Travis Gutiérrez Senger reflects on Asco’s legacy, he quickly notes they were more than an art group; they created a movement, one with remarkable influence on Chicano art history.

A couple of years ago, Jaime Ramirez unexpectedly stumbled across a black and white photograph from the early 1970s of his brother as a young man shining shoes in downtown Los Angeles. “When I came to ...

Introduction: We gotta get on this immigration issue -- The Mexican American Left and Early Struggles Against the Deportation Regime, 1924-1968. Historical rights in the territory : struggles for ...

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, this book brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in ...

A new mural by well-known muralist Jesus 'Cimi' Alvarado depicting the Chicano civil rights struggles of the 1960s will be unveiled on Saturday, Aug. 24. The mural, which includes members of the ...