The impact of the Chicano Movement on Chicana Art

The Chicano Movement was one of the significant cultural movements of the 20th century  (beginning in the early 1960s and growing until the mid-1970s).

The movement had a number of leaders; the best-known leaders of the movement were “Corky” Gonzales, Reyes Tijerina, Dolores Huerta, and Cesar Chavez.

Images from the Chicano Movement

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– the links below provide a deeper look into the Chicano Movement –

La Marcha por la Justicia, a 1971 rally in Los Angeles’ Belvedere Park. Courtesy Luis C. Garza/UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

United Farm Worker, c. 1970. Photo by Patricia López-Boron