Chicano
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Chicano or Chicana or Chicane is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement.
A "Chicano Power!" by M.E.Ch.A. CSULA is held up in a crowd (2006).
"Chicana by luck, proud by choice" at 2019 Women's March, Los Angeles
Chicano may derive from the Mexica people, originally pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka.
Frank H. Tellez, a Pachuco youth, wears a zoot suit while arrested in the Zoot Suit Riots. Pachucos were the first to reclaim the word Chicano as a form of pride.
Brown Berets
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The Brown Berets is a Chicano paramilitary organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement in the United States during the late 1960s. David Sanchez and Carlos Montes co-founded the group modele
Civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, flanked by Brown Berets, at a 1971 rally during the Chicano movement
Four Brown Berets leaders: Fred Lopez, David Sanchez, Carlos Montes, and Ralph Ramirez in Los Angeles, California, 1968
Founding co-editor of La Raza Ruth Robinson (right) with Margarita Sanchez (left) at the Belmont High School walkout, 1968
Brown Beret in Fresno, California for No on Prop 187 (1994)