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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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Departures

East L.A. Blowouts: Walking Out for Justice in the Classrooms

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¡La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and Women in the Chicano Movement

Learn About the Movement from Those Who Lived It

CSRC_LaRaza_B17F22S6_N007 Children carrying signs in support of Ricardo Chavez Ortiz in downtown Los Angeles | Pedro Arias, La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: La Raza's Enduring Importance
CSRC_LaRaza_B11F13C3_RR_023 Children at a musical performance by Estudiantina de la Facultad de Ingenieria from UNAM | Raul Ruiz, La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: The Chicano Movement's Multi-generational Nature
CSRC_LaRaza_B14F5S2_N010 Toasting during La Raza staff party | Manuel Barrera, Jr., La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: The Young Activists of La Raza
CSRC_LaRaza_B4F4C4_JR-RR_001 Protesters at Whittier Boulevard during the National Chicano Moratorium | La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: The Self-Determination of the Chicano
CSRC_LaRaza_B15F10C1_Staff_025 Protesters at Franklin D. Roosevelt Park rally | Maria Marquez Sanchez, La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: The Two Sides of Maria's Activism
CSRC_LaRaza_B5F2C1_RR_022 Young men protest in front of Parker Center, the headquarters of the LAPD. | Raul Ruiz, La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: Continuing the Struggle for Social Justice Today
CSRC_LaRaza_B1F6C2_LG_021 Protesters and Pedro Arias, La Raza staff photographer, demand reinstatement of Sal Castro | Luis Garza, La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: Affirming the Constitutional Rights of the Chicano
CSRC_LaRaza_B15F2C1_DZ_016 Protesters in la Marcha por los Tres in front of L.A. City Hall | Daniel Zapata, La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: A Time of Many Revolutions
CSRC_LaRaza_B16F6C14_Staff_014 Man photographs protesters against Rodino Bill | La Raza photograph collection. Courtesy of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Narrated Photo Essay: Police Surveillance and Infiltration During the Movimiento

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Oscar Zeta Acosta smiles during a march with others joined behind him.
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Trailer | The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo
Discover the life of radical Chicano lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta
The Chicano Rights Movement
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The Chicano Rights Movement
Explore the historic 1968 “Walkouts."
Dolores Huerta
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Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta, along with Cesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers
Farmworkers Strike
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Farmworkers Strike
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
La Raza: The Power of the Paper Unfolds in the Chicano Movement
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
How a Small Lincoln Heights Church Energized the Chicano Movement
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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