Scene where Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar was killed in Los Angeles, California in 1970. (Raul Ruiz / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) The Library of Congress has ...

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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 ...

El Coraje, a 1960s Tucson Chicano movement newspaper, is gaining new life in classrooms at the University of Arizona. This year's editor is Karina Salazar, a journalism senior who wants to write about ...

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 ...

Library purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. La biblioteca recibió apoyo federal del Fondo de Iniciativas Latinas, administrado por ...

As National Hispanic Heritage Month gets underway, the city of San Diego on Monday unveiled a new exhibit at City Hall documenting the Chicano Movement. The exhibit is part of the inaugural "Telling ...

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 ...