Chicano Movement

The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, also known as El Movimiento, is an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.

Read more about Chicano Movement:  Origins, Major Cities, Political Activism, Student Walkouts, Student and Youth Organizations, Anti-war Activism, Chicano Art, Aztlán

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    “Later
    Some movement is reversed and the urgent masks
    Speed toward a totally unexpected end
    Like clocks out of control.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)