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The Centro Cultural de la Raza (Spanish for Cultural Center of the People) is a non-profit organization with the specific mission to create, preserve, promote and educate about Chicano, Mexicano, Native American and Latino art and culture. It is located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California.
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War, and San Diego, along with the rest of California, became part of the United States. This transition marked a pivotal point in the history of Hispanics and Latinos in San Diego, as their status and rights within the new American society were redefined.
The California agricultural strikes of 1933 were a series of strikes by mostly Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers throughout the San Joaquin Valley.More than 47,500 workers were involved in the wave of approximately 30 strikes from 1931 to 1941.
Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
List of Occupy movement protest locations; List of Occupy movement protest locations in the United States; Timeline of Occupy Wall Street; We are the 99%; Other U.S. protests. 2011 United States public employee protests; 2011 Wisconsin protests; Other international protests. 15 October 2011 global protests; 2010–2011 Greek protests; 2011 ...
On June 3, the county requested the Army National Guard to "assist with security in the region due to recent civil unrest." [3] [4]On June 4, law enforcement agencies with Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, El Cajon, Escondido, La Mesa, National City, Oceanside, San Diego, San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego, the San Diego Community College District, and San Diego ...
In 1952, he joined the San Jose chapter of the Community Service Organization, a prominent Latino civil rights group, where he coordinated voter registrations and led campaigns against racial and ...
The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education.