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The murals, writings and ephemera created by artists, thinkers and activists in the Highland Park area prefigured a symbolic occupation of the city, or, as some historian and cultural critics have put it, the gradual Latinoization of Los Angeles.
A Chicana feminist movement emerged in reaction to the complexities of Latina empowerment, often facing resistance from male Chicano leaders and organizers.
Shifra Goldman was the first academic to take a scholarly look at the emergent Chicano art movement, publishing some of the most important works on Chicano art as well as initiating the movement to restore David Alfaro Siqueiros' mural, "America Tropic...
Chisme Arte was a publication of the Concilio de Arte Popular, a statewide arts advocacy group founded to interconnect and stabilize the network of Chicano arts organizations throughout California.
Mechicano was one of the earliest Chicano arts organizations to emerge in Los Angeles, founded in 1969 by community organizer Victor Franco at its original location in the La Cienega arts district.
Centro de Arte Publico was founded in 1977 on 56th and Figueroa in Highland Park, producing works that focused on Los Angeles street scenes and urban Chicana/o youth.
Beginning in the mid 1970s, a small number of Chicano artists, writers, intellectuals, and organizations began moving from East Los Angeles into Highland…
The Chicano Moratorium was a collective effort to raise awareness of the Vietnam War as a civil rights issue, one among many affecting the Chicano community.
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, drafted at the Denver Youth Conference of 1969, was perhaps the single most important philosophical document informing early, nationalist Chicano activism.
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s saw the arrival of a surging Chicano movement that worked towards political and social change.
A multi-faceted group of Chicano and Chicana activists emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, spurred on by the United Farm Workers, the Black Civil Rights movement and the struggle against the Vietnam War.
Highland Park natives Ricardo and Rosalio Muñoz, brothers by birth and in struggle, were important members of the movement for Chicano empowerment in Northeast Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s.