Chicano movement

  • Free Huey rally in Los Angeles (Part 1)

    On February 18, 1968, the day after Huey P. Newton’s birthday, a group of Black Power and civil rights activists held a rally in Los Angeles at the Sports Arena in honor of Newton’s birthday and to show support while Newton was incarcerated for manslaughter. Speakers Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), and Stokely…

  • Free Huey rally in Los Angeles (Part 2)

    On February 18, 1968, the day after Huey P. Newton’s birthday, a group of Black Power and civil rights activists held a rally in Los Angeles at the Sports Arena in honor of Newton’s birthday and to show support while Newton was incarcerated for manslaughter. Speakers Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), and Stokely…

  • Free Huey rally in Los Angeles (Part 3)

    On February 18, 1968, the day after Huey P. Newton’s birthday, a group of Black Power and civil rights activists held a rally in Los Angeles at the Sports Arena in honor of Newton’s birthday and to show support while Newton was incarcerated for manslaughter. Speakers Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin), and Stokely…

  • An interview with Cesar Chavez

    Alexander Hoffmann, an attorney who worked with the Delano Grape Strike, talks with the leader of the strike, Cesar Chavez, at his offices in Delano on July 11,1970.

  • The Chicano moratorium

    On August 29, 1970, over 20,000 protesters, mostly Mexican Americans or Chicanos, gathered in Laguna Park in East Los Angeles to peacefully protest the Vietnam War. By August of 1970, the mortality rate in the Vietnam War was disproportionately high within the Chicano demographic, while funding for schools, jobs, healthcare, housing, and other important areas…

  • The road to Wounded Knee V: an interview with Tom Cook (Part 5 of 5)

    This part of KPFA’s special report on the situation at Wounded Knee begins with an interview with Ron Harvey, reporting on a demonstration held at Mount Rushmore National Monument in support of the occupation at Wounded Knee, and actualities from the demonstration, including support from Chicano activists. Following that report is an interview with president…

  • April 22nd Coalition press conference

    This is a recording of a press conference during which various community members from the Bay Area give statements opposing the Vietnam War and specifically the bombing of Hanoi on April 16, 1972, and then give information about the demonstration being held the next day, April 22, 1972, at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Larry…

  • An interview with Cesar Chavez by Raul Torres

    An exclusive interview with the leader of the United Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee, conducted by Raul Torres, a Chicano community organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area and producer of “Reflecciones de la Raza” on KPFA.