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At the March Chicano Youth Conference, held in Denver, Rosalío Muñoz, the co-chair for the Los Angeles Chicano Moratorium, moved to hold a National Chicano Moratorium against the war on August 29, 1970. Local moratoriums were planned for cities throughout the Southwest and beyond, to build up for the national event on August 29. [19]
One of the most significant events documented by La Raza was the National Chicano Moratorium March in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970. The march, which stands as the largest demonstration ever conducted by people of Mexican descent in the U.S., was carried out by 20,000-30,000 individuals in protest of Mexican-American casualties in the Vietnam War.
Ruben Salazar (March 3, 1928 – August 29, 1970) [1] was a civil rights activist and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was the first Mexican journalist from mainstream media to cover the Chicano community. [2] Salazar was killed during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles ...
The second conference was held in March 1970. "Our New Nation is Born" was a resolution that revised and updated the original Plan de Aztlan. This document announced the National Chicano Moratorium in August 1970. [6] The participants established the independent "La Raza Unida" political party. [6] Approximately 3000 people attended.
[11] [5] A few months later in 1970, nearly 20,000 Chicanos marched in the National Chicano Moratorium March in Los Angeles which protested the high number of Chicanos in the military draft and Vietnam casualty lists. [5] This peaceful march was one of the largest Vietnam War protests in the United States. [5]
Los Seis were active in the UMAS (United Mexican American Students) at the University of Colorado Boulder.At the time [1967-1979] [4] [better source needed], Colorado was one of fewer than 10 U.S. states in which Chicanos (mid-20th century political/cultural term used by some Mexican Americans) were initiating the original MECha groups.
Rosalio Muñoz (born 1938) is a Chicano activist who is most recognized for his anti-war and anti-police brutality organizing with the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War. On August 29, 1970, Muñoz and fellow Chicano activist Ramses Noriega organized a peaceful march in East Los Angeles, California in which over 30,000 Mexican Americans ...
The true beginnings of the Chicano Liberation Front remain obscure because of their secretive tendencies. The closest thing to a primary source on the origins of the CLF appears in a 2007 oral history produced by University of California, Los Angeles: [24] The [Chicano] Moratorium people were being brought up on charges.