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El Movimiento

In the 1960s, the Chicano Movement, also known as El Movimiento, advocated for Mexican American empowerment across a broad spectrum of issues — from land reclamation and labor rights, to education reform and cultural identity. Learn about the Chicanos who shaped the movement, their acts of resistance and the lasting legacies they leave behind.

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Oscar Zeta Acosta smiles during a march with others joined behind him.
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Discover the life of radical Chicano lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta
The Chicano Rights Movement
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Explore the historic 1968 “Walkouts."
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta, along with Cesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers
Farmworkers Strike
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Caesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta lead the farmworkers strike in California
La Raza first edition Volume 1, No. 0, September 4, 1967 | Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
The origins of La Raza magazine sound like the beginning of a joke or a story that could go in any direction. However, it’s the beginning of the story of the life of one of the Chicano movement’s most important news publications.
Father Luce gives mass | Courtesy of the Church of the Epiphany
Nothing signals “Revolution HQ” about the Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, but if its walls could speak, perhaps they would rally and roar because this place of worship was also a place of resistance in the 1960s and 70s.
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