It doesn’t take long to find the influence that the Brown Berets, a pro-Latino rights group that was formed in 1967, has had in San Diego. Chicano Park in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego, ...

THE 1960’S. THE TIME IN HISTORY PLADYE WITH RACIAL PROFILING, DISCRIMINATION, AND CLASSISM THAT SMART DOUBLE UEST.NR THESE INJUSTICES DEEPLY IMPACTED COMMUNITIEOFS COROL AND TO FIGHT BACK, A CHICANO ...

Activist David Sanchez, who founded the Brown Berets and led them in their 1972 occupation of Santa Catalina Island on behalf of the Chicano movement, treks to the spot where the group camped in ...

The Chicano Movement exploded in the late 1960s and gave birth to the Brown Berets, a Chicano organization that started in Los Angeles, with chapters across the Southwest, including one in San Diego.

I was raised in Old Town San Diego and I was aware my future husband’s family lived on the same street. However, I didn’t really meet him until 1968. I was 23 years old at the time. We got married in ...

In August 1972, a Chicano-rights group called the Brown Berets camped out on Catalina Island for three weeks, demanding that its almost 42,000 acres of undeveloped land be turned into housing. I grew ...

Sometimes a helping hand is just as powerful as a raised fist. The Autonomous Brown Berets De San Anto demonstrated both Sunday evening outside Harlandale Community Center, where the grassroots group ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Putting pen to paper, Hilda Jensen began her ...

Filled with ideological pride, tenacity and purpose, Gloria Arellanes jumped on a bus when she was just 19 years old to embark on a journey from the only areas she had ever knownâ East Los Angeles and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the late 1960s, a young Irma C.