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This is a tale of war and huelga.
It centers on a time when most Mexican-Americans proudly called themselves “Chicano,” marched by the thousands for United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez, idolized the Brown Berets and flashed the closed-fist Chicano power salute.
It was the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when many Latinos struggled on college campuses, in city halls and on urban streets for various political and social issues, such as better pay for farm workers, an end to the Vietnam War and access to higher education.
Over the last few decades, many of the long-haired college protestors who sported berets, shouted “viva la raza!” and wore Ernesto “Che” Guevara T-shirts, have toned down their activism. Although they may still remember the Chicano handshake, they turned into doctors, business owners, lawyers and college professors with graying hair, bifocals and retirement portfolios.
But a slice of the Chicano Movement will...
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