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In 1968, the Brown Berets planned and supported the East Los Angeles blowouts or school walkouts for some 10,000 youth who protested unequal education over two weeks. [2] [9] Two months after the blowout on May 31, 1968, five Brown Berets were arrested or indicted, becoming part of the East L.A. 13. [3]
Maria Lopez, a resident of Catalina at the time, told the Los Angeles Times that her mother and aunts made food for the group, and her father delivered it to the Berets' campsite. Lopez stated, “The Mexican people here, the Chicanos, welcomed them. But a lot of the gringos, they were afraid they were coming to take over.” [6]
The Brown Berets were inspired by and often compared to the Black Panther Party. Montes was one of the leaders of the Chicano Blowouts , a series of walkouts of East Los Angeles high schools to protest against racism and inequality in Los Angeles-area high schools.
Early in her career she represented the Brown Berets when they were awarded the Ghetto Freedom Award by the Greater Los Angeles Urban League in 1968. [3] The Brown Berets worked to raise their community by calling for improvement on education and employment, demanding more resources for the Chicano/a movement, and exposing police brutality ...
David Sanchez (born June 17, 1947) is an American civil rights activist, and founding member of the Brown Berets. In the 1960s and 70s he was heavily involved in the Chicano civil rights and political movements.
Las Adelitas de Aztlán was a short-lived Mexican American female civil rights organization that was created by Gloria Arellanes and Gracie and Hilda Reyes in 1970. Gloria Arellanes and Gracie and Hilda Reyes were all former members of the Brown Berets, another Mexican American Civil rights organization that had operated concurrently during the 1960s and 1970s in the California area.
Twelve others, many of whom were Brown Berets members, were also arrested and charged. The charges were dropped in 1972. Castro continued educating and pressing for educational reform in Los Angeles-area schools. Anaheim's Savanna High School celebrates Sal Castro Day every March 27.
The young Latinos included four Salvadorans, one Nicaraguan, and one Honduran, some of whom had been involved in the youth group the Mission Rebels (founded in 1965); and later in pan-Latino organizations such as COBRA (Confederation of Brown Race for Action) at the College of San Mateo, and the Brown Berets, an organization that took ...