EVENT PROFILE – 1972 LA RAZA UNIDA CONVENTION
1972 LA RAZA UNIDA NATIONAL CONVENTION Following a series of walk-outs by Mexican American students to protest inferior education at the high school in Crystal City, Texas in 1969, Chicano activists,...
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1967 TIERRA AMARILLA COURTHOUSE RAID Inspired by a mystical dream in which he saw frozen horses melting in the sun, lay preacher Reies López Tijerina moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1963 and...
View ArticleEVENT PROFILE- 1932 WHITEWASHING OF AMÉRICA TROPICAL
1932 WHITEWASHING OF AMÉRICA TROPICAL MURAL In June of 1932 the Mexican muralist Davíd Alfaro Siquieros arrived in Los Angeles invited by the Chouinard Institute of Art to conduct a series of workshops...
View ArticleLATINOPIA GUEST BLOG “TIJERINA – A REMEMBRANCE BY JOSÉ ANGEL GUTIÉRREZ”
“Cowards die hundreds of times a day; a warrior only once,” my father once said to me. When I met Reies López Tijerina these words came to have meaning and impact. He was a warrior for our people’s...
View ArticleEVENT PROFILE – 1970 NATIONAL CHICANO MORATORIUM
AUGUST 29, 1970 CHICANO MORATORIUM MARCH Historically, Mexican Americans have defended their country and have distinguished themselves in the wars of the United States. Mexican Americans fought in U.S....
View ArticleLATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE “1862 CINCO DE MAYO”
EL CINCO DE MAYO. Why celebrate an otherwise minor holiday in Mexico in the U.S. (or elsewhere for that matter)? Because El Cinco de Mayo is important to Chicanos and to freedom-loving Americans...
View ArticleEVENT PROFILE – 1972 LA RAZA UNIDA CONVENTION
1972 LA RAZA UNIDA NATIONAL CONVENTION Following a series of walk-outs by Mexican American students to protest inferior education at the high school in Crystal City, Texas in 1969, Chicano activists,...
View ArticleEVENT PROFILE – 1967 TIERRA AMARILLA COURTHOUSE RAID
1967 TIERRA AMARILLA COURTHOUSE RAID Inspired by a mystical dream in which he saw frozen horses melting in the sun, lay preacher Reies López Tijerina moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1963 and...
View ArticleEVENT PROFILE- 1932 WHITEWASHING OF AMÉRICA TROPICAL
1932 WHITEWASHING OF AMÉRICA TROPICAL MURAL In June of 1932 the Mexican muralist Davíd Alfaro Siquieros arrived in Los Angeles invited by the Chouinard Institute of Art to conduct a series of workshops...
View ArticleLATINOPIA GUEST BLOG “TIJERINA – A REMEMBRANCE BY JOSÉ ANGEL GUTIÉRREZ”
“Cowards die hundreds of times a day; a warrior only once,” my father once said to me. When I met Reies López Tijerina these words came to have meaning and impact. He was a warrior for our people’s...
View ArticleEVENT PROFILE – 1970 NATIONAL CHICANO MORATORIUM
AUGUST 29, 1970 CHICANO MORATORIUM MARCH Historically, Mexican Americans have defended their country and have distinguished themselves in the wars of the United States. Mexican Americans fought in U.S....
View ArticleLATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE “1862 CINCO DE MAYO”
EL CINCO DE MAYO. Why celebrate an otherwise minor holiday in Mexico in the U.S. (or elsewhere for that matter)? Because El Cinco de Mayo is important to Chicanos and to freedom-loving Americans...
View ArticleLATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA
THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA FACTS AND ROOTS Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America, defined as property but not part of that nation. As such Puerto Ricans have been...
View ArticleLATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE PORVENIR MASSACRE
LATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE THE PORVENIR MASSACRE One of the most horrendous of extra-judicial killings took place on January 28, 1918 in the outskirts of the village of Porvenir, Texas, located in...
View ArticleLATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY ( EL GRITO)
Mexican Independence Day “El Grito” Throughout Mexico and in Mexican and Chicano communities in the United States, the 16th of September is celebrated as Mexican Independence Day. It is the day that in...
View ArticleLATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE – THE FIRST THANKSGIVING IN AMERICA
First Thanksgiving in El Paso Centuries before the first Spanish Explorers ventured into the El Paso region, the “High Plains” and deserts of the Rio Grande valley were the home of the Mansos, Tiguas,...
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