Reies Tijerina : leader of the Alianza

Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Chicano leader who heads a Mexican-American movement to reclaim hereditary land grants confiscated by the United States government, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. The group Tijerina heads is called Federal Alliance of Free City-States, more commonly known as the North New Mexico six-county land grant movement. The program was recorded Friday morning, April 5th, the day following the shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tijerina says he arrived in Atlanta March 4, 1968 to meet with King and other leaders. The march on Washington was then scheduled to be lead by Rev. Ralph Abernathy.