Chicano movement

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…

In the 1960s and Now: Photos of Latino Youth Resistance #Artbound

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...

"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.

Hua Hsu writes that, taken as a whole, the work of the photographer George Rodriguez—which has been compiled into a new book, “Double Vision”—is its own kind of double exposure, reflecting both sides of Los Angeles.

A great introduction to Chicano organizing and movement building. This is a telling of history from a very personal place from a man who lived it.

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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.

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