Chicano Moratorium
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The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-
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Mexican-American Marines in Vietnam, ca. 1970-1972 23.3% of all Southwestern Marine Corps casualties had distinctive Spanish surnames
Aerial view of the August riots
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
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…a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. Led by activists from local colleges and members of the Brown Berets, a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged the East L.A. Walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with an August 29, 1970 march…
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)