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History.com: How the Chicano Movement Championed Mexican American Identity and Fought for Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Chicano activists took on a name that had long been a racial slur -- and wore it with pride. In the 1960s, a radicalized Mexican-American movement began pushing for a new identification. The Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento, advocated...