The festival will feature a classic car cruise, community art displays and headline performances by the Thee Midniters and El ...

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 ...

Chuy Martinez and Otilio Ruiz share music from the Chicano movement. Passionate about their heritage and proud to be Chicano, Chuy Martinez and Otilio Ruiz share music from the Chicano movement ...

With 'Compton in My Soul,' Albert M. Camarillo shows his Chicano identity is inseparable from his scholarly agenda: expanding the narrative of U.S. history to include folks like him.

The police assaulted the people." Participants in Chicano Movement protest in Los Angeles, California in the late 1960s or early 1970s. (Raul Ruiz/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) ...

Resilience in art, and in the movement. “You know, a lot of these pieces are late in the '70s when the Chicano movement was very active. But — it's still here.

The Chicano rights movement started in the '60s when young activists stood up to fight for social justice and equality. At West High School in 1969, students walked out of class demanding a better ...

Diane Armenta (center), with the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center, at Monday’s opening of “Telling Our Stories and Preserving Our Histories: The Chicano Movement in San Diego” at the ...

"Telling Our Stories and Preserving Our Histories: The Chicano Movement in San Diego" is on exhibit at San Diego City Hall, 202 C St., through Oct. 18.

On the other hand, Professor Vélez-Ibáñez indicated that there was a period when the Chicano movement suffered from social inequality. "In the schools, they demanded that we only speak English.

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 ...