By Daniel Hernandez – LATaco.com – Photo Not Credited. He was a high school football player and class president in the Central Valley. Then he went to Panama with the U.S. Air Force, where he became a Baptist preacher. Back in California, he went to law...
By Russell Contreras/The Associated Press – SantaFeNewMexican.com – Associated Press file photo. Albuquerque, New Mexico — Dolores Huerta formed the first farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, stood next to Sen. Robert Kennedy minutes before he was...
By ElPaso411.com – Photo Not Credited. We’ve all heard people call El Paso Chucotown or just Chuco. If you walked down the streets of El Paso, Texas, in 1942, you probably wouldn’t think much of a man wearing an oversized suit and fedora hat. The style was...
By Staff report/Press-Enterprise – PE.com – AP file photo. Photo: United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez pauses during his 1,000-mile march though the agricultural valley of California on behalf of the UFW union in 1975./AP file photo Cesar Chavez Days...
By Peter Wong – BeyondChron.org – Image Not Credited. The man that writer Hunter S. Thompson immortalized in “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas” was actually a Chicano rights activist named Oscar “Zeta” Acosta. Director Phillip Rodriguez tells Acosta’s...
By Remezcla Estaff – Remezcla.com – Art by Alan López for Remezcla. Titled “Heroes Among Us,” the mural is a source of pride and a reminder of the contribution of Mexican-Americans. Carlos “El Jaguar” Aguilar dedicated more than four years to creating the...
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