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The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento, was a social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano identity and worldview that combated structural racis
Cesar Chavez with demonstrators
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
Three of the "Big Four" of the Chicano movement at the Raza Unida Party's 1972 convention: Reies Lopez Tijerina, New Mexico (second from left), Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Colorado (center), and José Ángel Gutiérrez, Texas (far right). Cesar Chavez, California, did not attend.
Luisa Moreno, a Guatemalan social activist who played a major role in the pre-Chicano Movement.
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Chicano or Chicana or Chicane is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement.
Chicano Movement
…referred to as El Movimiento (pronounced , Spanish for "the Movement"), was a social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano identity and worldview that combated structural racism, encouraged cultural revitalization, and achieved community empowerment by rejecting assimilation…
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.