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The Chicano history timeline shown below is courtesy of
Nancy Tovar
1962
The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in California, began as an
independent organization led by Cesar Chavez
1963
In Crystal City, Texas the Political Association of Spanish Speaking
Organizations (PASO) and local Teamsters (mostly Mexican Americans) unite to take
over the city council for 2 years
October 8, 1963
La Alianza Federal de Mercedes (The Federal Land Grant Alliance) is
incorporated by Reies Lopez Tijerina
1964 Vietnam War begins
1965 Vietnam War continues
1965
Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales is appointed director of Denver’s War on Poverty
September 16, 1965
The National Farm Workers Association led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores
Huerta meet in a Delano church hall and vote to join the Agricultural Workers
Organizing Committee strike – the strike of the grape pickers
1966 Vietnam War continues
1966
Rodolfo Acuna starts teaching the first Mexican American history class at
San Fernando Valley State College, Los Angeles, California
March 17 – April 11, 1966
Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association march from Delano to
Sacramento
March 28, 1966
The "guarache-out" by 50 Chicanos at the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico
April, 1966
The founding of the Crusade for Justice by Corky Gonzales, growing out of a
protest against the tactics of the administration of the city of Denver,
Colorado
June, 1966
Farm Worker solidarity march from the Rio Grande to Austin, Texas
1967 Vietnam War continues
1967
"I am Joaquin" by Rodolfo Gonzales is published
May, 1967
MAYO (Mexican American Youth Organization) is founded by Jose Angel
Gutierrez
June 5, 1967
The Rio Arriba County Courthouse in Tierra Amarilla raided by Tijerina and
the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres, in Northern New Mexico
October 21 – 22, 1967
The Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres national convention held in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, organized by Tijerina. The idea for La Raza Unida is
discussed
October 28, 1967
La Raza Unida Party organized at conference in El Paso, Texas
December, 1967
Brown Berets founded in East Los Angeles by David Sanchez
La Piranya coffee shop opened
December 27, 1967
More than 100 Chicanos demonstrate at the East Los Angeles Sheriff’s
sub-station against police brutality
1968 Vietnam War continues
February 15, 1968
Cesar Chavez begins a 25 day fast
February 25, 1968
Convention of Congress of Mexican American Unity at Roosevelt High School,
Los Angeles – 550 delegates
Spring, 1968
UMAS Conference at UCLA
Spring, 1968
Chicano students on California college campuses walk-out
March 1, 1968
Chicano student walk-out, Wilson High School, Los Angeles – 300 students
March 5, 1968
Chicano student walk-out, Garfield High School, Los Angeles – 2000 students
March 6, 1968
Chicano student walk-outs, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Garfield High School, Los
Angeles – 4500 students
March 7, 1968
Chicano student walk-outs, Belmont and Garfield High School, Los Angeles
2000 students
March 8, 1968
Chicano student walk-outs, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Garfield High School, Los
Angeles – Rally at Hazard Park - 2000 students
March 7, 1969? 68?
Demonstration in front of Hollenbeck Police station, East Los Angeles
March 10 – 11, 1968
Cesar Chavez breaks his fast at a mass in Delano, California
March 20, 1968
Chicano student walk-out – Denver, Colorado
April 9, 1968
700 Chicano students walk-out of Lanier High School in San Antonio, Texas.
600 more walk-out from Edgewood High School
May 27, 1968
East Los Angeles 13 indicted for conspiring to disrupt the Los Angeles
public schools
May – June, 1968
Poor Peoples March
June, 1968
East Los Angeles native Jose Sanchez, 19, is the first Chicano to publicly
resist the military draft
June, 1968
Chicano students at San Jose State College hold a separate commencement
September, 1968
Jesus Dominguez brutalized by the Los Angeles Police Department
September 26 – October 2, 1968
Chicanos sit-in at the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of
Education
October 3, 1968
Massacre at Plaza of the Three Cultures (Tlatelolco), Mexico City
November 4, 1968
Rosalio Munoz elected UCLA student body president in special run-off
election
1969 Vietnam War continues
Spring, 1969
Chicano student walk-out – Kingsville, Texas
March 27 – 31, 1969
First National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference sponsored by the Crusade
for Justice, Denver, Colorado – 1500 youth
Celebrated "the new nation of Aztlan"
March, 1969
Corky Gonzales arrested
March, 1969
Rally protesting the ouster of VISTA workers in Del Rio
April 24, 1969
Biltmore Hotel, Nuevas Vistas Conference
Speech given by Gov. Reagan at the Biltmore Hotel results in 6 Chicanos
(The Biltmore 6) being accused of arson and cutting electric wires during the
speech
June 11, 1969
Reies Lopez Tijerina jailed
Fall 1969
Chicano student walk-outs – Abilene,Texas
September 16, 1969
Rosalio Munoz refused induction into the army initiating the National
Chicano draft resistance movement
Accused the U.S. of genocide against Mexican Americans
Early October, 1969
Rosalio Munoz draft board hearing – "an illegal hearing"
October, 1969
"Chale con el Draft" a 12 minute documentary on Rosalio Munoz’s anti-draft
demonstration produced by Neil Reichline, former UCLA Daily Bruin editor
November 12, 1969
Rosalio Munoz starts fast "as a symbol of his devotion to his cause"
November 14, 1969
Nationwide anti-war demonstration held in San Francisco
November 15, 1969
1 st Chicano Moratorium held in McAllen, Texas
November 18, 1969
Rosalio Munoz publicly refused induction into the military service for 2nd
time
November 28, 1969
All New Mexico wide Chicano Conference held in Albuquerque, NM. Rosalio
Munoz and Bob Elias speak against the draft and war
December, 1969
Moratorium Day – San Francisco
December, 1969
Rosalio Munoz meets with Mario Obledo
December, 1969
Workshop at MAYO Conference in La Mission, Texas.
Carlos Caldera of Houston, Texas joins national moratorium organizing effort
December 7, 1969
Demonstration at St. Basil’s Catholic Cathedral, by Catolicos por la Raza,
Los Angeles
December 7, 1969
Denver Anti-draft Conference with Crusade for Justice
December 10, 1969 - January 5, 1970
Chicano student walk-out – Crystal City, Texas
December 20, 1969
1st East Los Angeles Moratorium March and rally starting at 5 Points
Memorial Monument to Obregon Park with 2000 people
December 24, 1969
Protest by Catolicos por la Raza at St. Basil’s Catholic Cathedral against
the racist, unresponsive Catholic Church system
1970 Vietnam War continues
1970
Las Adelitas, an East Los Angeles women’s group, formed
1970
La Raza Unida Party was organized
1970
6 "suicides" at ELA sheriffs station
10 "suicides" by Hollenbeck police in past 5 years
January 11, 1970
Chicano Civil Rights Rally at Lincoln High School auditorium, Los
Angeles
January 31, 1970
Chicano Moratorium March in San Bernardino, California
February 28, 1970
"March in the Rain" The 2 nd Chicano Moratorium Anti-war March and Rally
demonstration at Laguna Park- 6000 people
February, 1970
Channel 28 (KCET), Los Angeles) airs documentary of "March in the Rain"
March, 1970
KMEX (Spanish language TV station Channel 34) news director, Ruben Salazar, aired film footage of police beating students
March, 1970
Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles and Huntington Park, California school
walk-outs
March, 1970
Raza Freedom School started in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
March 1, 1970
Anti-war conference at Euclid Community Center, East Los Angeles
March 25 - 29, 1970
2 nd National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference held in Denver, Colorado
– 3000 people
April and early May, 1970
Chicano Moratoriums in Riverside/Austin, Texas
April 4, 1970
Chicano Moratorium in Fresno, California
May 2, 1970
Raza Unida Party nominating convention
May 3, 1970
Anti-war march in San Juan, Puerto Rico
May 5, 1970
Chicano Moratorium in Sacramento, California
May 5, 1970
Moratorium speakers at MECHA community festivities all over Southern
California
May 8, 1970
Anti-war march at University of New Mexico
May 13, 1970
Oakland, California – 1000 students
walked out of school to protest the war
May 16, 1970
First Colorado La Raza Unida meeting. Corky Gonzales elected state
chair.
May 30, 1970
4 Moratoriums held against the war and for the struggle for social justice
San Francisco/San Diego/Santa Barbara/San Antonio, Texas
July 1, 1970
Violent confrontation with Sheriff’s Station in East Los Angeles
July 4, 1970
Protest rally, East Los Angeles
After the rally there were numerous confrontations with the ELA sheriffs in
the month of July
July 16, 1970
Sanchez brothers, Guillermo and Gilardo Beltran shot and killed by police
(LAPD)
July 26, 1970
Chicano Moratorium March in Houston, Texas - 5000 people
Also East Oakland
August 1, 1970
Chicano Moratorium Picnic at Lueders Park, East Los Angeles
August 17, 1970
Los Angeles City councilman Art Snyder made a citizens arrest on Sergio
Cabanillas, Patricia Borjon and Raul Ruiz
August 22, 1970
Chicano Moratorium Marches in New York/Albuquerque/El Paso/San
Diego/Washington DC/San Fernando/Pomona/Stockton/Coachella
*Saturday, August 29, 1970
National Chicano Moratorium Committee protest against the Vietnam war.
25,000 people march from Belvedere Park to Laguna Park, East Los Angeles
Ruben Salazar, Lynn Ward and Angel Diaz killed
August 31, 1970
Federal Grand Jury indicts Rosalio Munoz for draft evasion
Fall, 1970
U.S.Attorney Meyers indicts police for Sanchez brothers killings – the case
was later dropped when the Nixon administration forced Meyers’ resignation.
September 1, 1970
Wake for Ruben Salazar at Bagues Mortuary, East Los Angeles
September 13, 1970
Protest demonstration at St. Basil’s Catholic Cathedral by Católicos por la
Raza, Los Angeles
September 16, 1970
Mexican Independence Day
Parade and Rally with Chicano Moratorium Committee
September 19, 1970
Anti-war Demonstration in Oxnard, California
September 10 – October 5, 1970
Salazar Inquest
October 7, 1970
Student walk-out in East Chicago, Indiana by more than 600 Chicano students
October 27, 1970
Pit River Challenge
November 13, 1970
Trial of Corky Gonzales begun in Los Angeles
Police raid Chicano Moratorium office in East Los Angeles
November 28, 1970
9 Chicanos arrested driving away from Chicano Moratorium office in East Los
Angeles
December 1970
Chicano Moratorium office in East Los Angeles closed
December 1970?
Protest at Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, to end inhumane and racist
practices
1971 Vietnam War continues
Early 1971
Fresno Chicano Moratorium March – 1000 people
January 9, 1971
Mass demonstration and march to protest police harassment from Hollenbeck
Station to Parker Center, Downtown Los Angeles. People attacked by police and
arrested - 2000 people
January 31, 1971
Chicano Moratorium Marcha por Justicia and Rally from all over Southern
California against police brutality to Belvedere Park, East Los Angeles –
10,000 people
European immigrant, Gustav Montag, shot and killed by police, 35 wounded
February 27, 1971
Marcha por Justicia – Albuquerque, New Mexico – 400+ people
February 27, 1971
1 st La Raza Unida Conference – Cal State, Los Angeles
May 5 - August 9, 1971
Marcha de la Reconquista from Calexico to Sacramento to protest police
brutality, war, cutbacks
May 8, 1971
Chicana Regional conference
May 28 – 30, 1971
National Chicana Conference, Houston, Texas. 600+ Chicanas attend
1972 Vietnam War continues
February, 1972
Rosalio Munoz acquitted of draft evasion. The government guilty of
political denial of due process
February 12, 1972
The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) charters the United
Farm Workers (UFW), AFL-CIO
February 25, 1972
Robertson High School and Junior High in East Las Vegas walk-out – 250
Chicano students
March 7 – 10, 1972
Junior and senior high Chicano students walk-out, Las Cruces, New Mexico
-1000 students
March 9, 1972
Moratorium march in Salt Lake City, Utah to protest police shooting of 2
Chicano brothers, Antonio and Rito – 200 people
1973 Vietnam War continues
1974 Vietnam War continues
April, 1975
Vietnam War ends
North Vietnamese seize Saigon
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