The mural "The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes" is a re-construction of da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper," replacing religious figures with Chicano activists. Artist José Antonio Burciaga polled Chicano students and activists to determine who…
Sheriff’s Deputy armed at the Silver Dollar Café, where Ruben Salazar was shot by a police officer by a 10-inch tear gas projectile in the head on August 29, 1970. Gustav Montag, Lyn Ward, and Jose Diaz were also killed.
National Chicano Moratorium gathered more than 30,000 activists, students, families and their children to the march down Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles
One of the fundamental principles of black nationalism was self-defense. The Black Panther Party used the notion of self-defense to monitor neighborhoods, protecting black citizens against police brutality.