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Meier, Matt S., and Margo Gutierrez, ed. Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (2000) excerpt and text search Ontiveros, Randy J. In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement (New York University Press; 2013) 288 pages; how Chicano artists and activists of the 1960s and 1970s used fiction ...
The Mexican American Youth Organization (acronym MAYO, also described as the Mexican Youth Organization [1]) is a civil rights organization formed in 1967 in San Antonio, Texas, USA to fight for Mexican-American rights.
The Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) was begun by five young men studying at St. Mary's University in 1967: Jose Angel Gutierrez, Mario Compean, Willie Velasquez, Ignacio Perez, and Juan Patlan. Jose Angel explained "All of us were the products of the traditional Mexican American organizations …
José Gutiérrez Alanya (born 1957), better known by his nickname Tongo, Peruvian singer and humorist; José Gutiérrez de la Vega (1791–1865), Spanish painter; José Gutiérrez Solana (1886–1945), Spanish painter, engraver and author
In 1848, the Mexican–American War created the Xicano with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb 2 of that year. In a land colonized by three European/Western nations (Spain, France and the United States), the original occupants of these lands began to rebuild their own national identity, an identity focused on ancient ties to the occupied Americas and indigeneity.
J. L. Navarro, author of the collection Blue Day on Main Street (1973) [1] Josefina Niggli; Daniel Olivas, author of The Courtship of María Rivera Peña, Crossing the Border: Collected Poems, and How to Date a Flying Mexican; Berta Ornelas, author of Come Down from the Mound (1975) [1] Sheila Ortiz Taylor, author of Spring Forward/Fall Back ...
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César Chávez visits Colegio Cesar Chavez in Mt. Angel, Oregon (1974). César Chávez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was a hugely influential labor rights activist. He, along with Dolores Huerta , created the United Farm Workers , which would become one of the most important organizations in the fight for labour rights of farmworkers.