The Mexican American civil rights movement took off in the late 1960s, a time when César Chávez became a household name and groups like MALDEF (the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational ...

More Mexican Americans participated in school boards across the district. UCLA also saw an impressive increase in Mexican American student enrollment the year after the protest, from 100 to 1,900 ...

After only five years of diligent work, the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute announced last week that it was closer to an extraordinary goal: Establishing the nation’s first museum ...

Why I Fought for Mexican American Civil Rights in Texas José Angel Gutiérrez cofounded the Raza Unida Party, one of the most ambitious political forces to emerge from the Chicano Movement. José ...

Sarah Zenaida Gould, executive director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, with items from the institutes growing archive, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.

What does the Chicano Movement have to do with Cinco de Mayo? The celebration of Cinco de Mayo began as a form of resistance to the effects of the Mexican-American War in the late 19th century and ...

“Touring Crystal City, 1969 to the Guadalupe, is exciting because we are bringing a vital story of Mexican-American civil rights history to San Antonio, the hotbed of the Texas Chicano movement ...

Object Details Author Behnken, Brian D Contents Introduction / Brian D. Behnken -- Not similar enough: Mexican American and African American civil rights struggles in the 1940s / Lisa Y. Ramos -- The ...

In a remarkable partnership of institutions in three Texas cities, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center will host Crystal City 1969, a play based on the true-life story of Mexican-American teenagers ...

Hopes for 'state of the art' Mexican American civil rights museum in SA gains steam Initially revealed last year, the future first-of-its-kind museum could go anywhere along a 2-mile stretch on ...

In 1968, Cisneros and a group of other Mexican American and African American parents filed a lawsuit against CCISD, which accused the district of segregation.