The 1960s was the start of the Chicano movement: El Movimiento. Activists like César Chávez and Dolores Huerta were on the front lines calling for civil rights and social justice for Mexican ...

Grijalva, the son of a Mexican immigrant who rose to the halls of Congress in a public-service career that stretched more ...

Another NEA grantee, Su Teatro, has evolved from its roots as a student-organized theater group during the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the early 1970s into a comprehensive cultural arts ...

Denver was the epicenter of the Chicano civil rights movement, so it's only fitting that as part of its fiftieth-anniversary celebration, Su Teatro reprised its original production War of the ...

Elected 12 times to Congress, Grijalva was a fixture of Tucson politics and a standard-bearer of progressive Democrats.

The demonstration was part of a coordinated effort led by the 50501 Movement—named for “50 ... particularly those related to immigration, civil rights, and minority representation.

Grijalva was a community organizer and was active in Raza Unida Party, the 1970s movement that promoted Chicano pride and defended civil rights for Mexican-Americans. He was eventually elected to ...

Grijalva was a community organizer and was active in Raza Unida Party, the 1970s movement that promoted Chicano pride and defended civil rights for Mexican-Americans. He ran for the Tucson school ...

have found solace and solidarity these days in MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), a Latino student activist group born out of the civil rights movement and now with a presence on ...