Martin Luther King Day is unique among American holidays, in the sense that it does not commemorate a […]
Category Archive: Chicano history
When you look up the word “plenary,” the dictionary provides the following definition: “(of a meeting) to be […]
On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed what became, in retrospect, one of the most influential […]
The mainstream Left often finds itself struggling to construct a respectable image within a liberal political sphere whose […]
“So we moved here to El Monte, and I remember all the neighbors were white,” recalled Gloria Arellanes […]
(This post is part of our ongoing attempt to “live-blog” our participation in community-based history in South El […]
Hello Everyone on the Internet! In continuing our live-blog on History in Action, here is the second of […]
[Editor’s Note: Fifteen years ago, a a group of Jewish and Latino activists began efforts to renovate and […]