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  2. Black–brown unity - Wikipedia

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    An unprecedented meeting of African American and Mexican American activists occurred in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres 1967 conference hosted by Reies Tijerina to explore Black and Brown unity, cooperation, and forge a cross-racial alliance.

  3. Rosalio Muñoz - Wikipedia

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    The march was described by scholar Lorena Oropeza as "one of the largest assemblages of Mexican Americans ever." [5] Muñoz opened the post-march rally stating "A year ago, when we started organizing against the war, there were very few of us," but now "a powerful call for social change" had been created. Muñoz proclaimed that "we have to ...

  4. Luisa Moreno - Wikipedia

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    Luisa Moreno (August 30, 1907 – November 4, 1992) was a Guatemalan social activist and participant in the United States labor movement.She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in both English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", [1] before returning to Guatemala in 1950.

  5. Reies Tijerina - Wikipedia

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    Reies López Tijerina (September 21, 1926 – January 19, 2015), was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. [1]

  6. Jovita Idar - Wikipedia

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    Jovita Idar Vivero (September 7, 1885 – June 15, 1946) was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants.

  7. 11 Hispanic-American Innovators Who Helped Change the World - AOL

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    Another famous Mexican-American Vietnam War activist is Joan Baez, but she conducted her protests through music. Credited with resurrecting the dying art of folk music along with her contemporary ...

  8. Activists' network in Mexico helps U.S. women get abortions - AOL

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    Led by activist Veronica Cruz, Las Libres pioneered in training “acompañantes” to provide virtual guidance for self-managed medical abortions in Mexico and, since 2019, in the U.S. as well.

  9. Chicano Movement - Wikipedia

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    Before this, Chicano/a had been a term of derision, adopted by some Pachucos as an expression of defiance to Anglo-American society. [14] With the rise of Chicanismo, Chicano/a became a reclaimed term in the 1960s and 1970s, used to express political autonomy, ethnic and cultural solidarity, and pride in being of Indigenous descent, diverging from the assimilationist Mexican-American identity.