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Pattsi Valdez, member of artist group Asco, stands on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, above the wall of the building where two fellow Asco members, Willie F. Herron III, Gronk and Harry Gamboa Jr., had spraypainted their names the night before…

A mural in Los Angeles paying tribute to Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevera. The mural's text likely refers to the characterization of Hispanics as a "minority" despite constituting the majority of the population in many Californian and…

Assata shakur was a prominent woman in the black nationalist movement and was also a member of the black liberation army and black panther party.

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.

LSD (acid)- Lysergic acid diethylamide was the most wide-spread recreational psychedelic used in the 1960s. The liberal counterculture group known as the hippies. This drug was used for gaining perspective on people's roles in society, and for…

Carlos Montes was a co-founder of the Brown Berets in 1967.