The Occupation of Catalina Island began on August 30, 1972, when the Brown Berets, a Chicano-rights organization, occupied Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, for three weeks. The Berets, l
Members of the Brown Berets in formation, 1972
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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.