OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A new exhibit now open at the Oakland Museum celebrates the Chicano movement. It was a push for fair treatment, equal opportunity, civil rights and cultural appreciation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laura Allen, a reporter for the University of Texas at Arlington’s Shorthorn newspaper, wrote an article on Dec. 1, 1972, titled, “Newspaper ‘Stings’ Readers, Association of Mexican American Students ...

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 ...

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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 ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — “If you could describe this exhibit in one word, what would that word be?” I asked. “I would say resilience,” said Valerie Jaimes, Executive Director of the Chicano Park Museum and ...

After learning about racial injustice firsthand in his hometown of Compton, where he was born in 1948, Albert M. Camarillo spent more than four decades pursuing racial equality as a professor of ...

Dozens of them gathered Jan. 10 in Balboa Park at the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art to celebrate ...

On May 23, 1980, around 1,000 people, representing some 200 organizations from every border state, Colorado, Chicago, and nearby Tijuana, assembled in San Diego for the National Chicano Immigration ...

On this date 54 years ago, the largest ethnically focussed action in the movement against the Vietnam War took place—offering an important example of the power of a people united. Today, August 29, ...