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Highland Park natives Ricardo and Rosalio Muñoz, brothers by birth and in struggle, were important members of the movement for Chicano empowerment in Northeast Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s.
Thanks to the lingering aftereffects of the New Deal and the post-WWII boom, development in Los Angeles was in full swing in the 1960s. A tidal wave of development would begin to rumble through the sleepy neighborhood.
Benjamin Franklin High School's student body reflected the change in demographic that occurred in Highland Park throughout the decades.
A memoir on how baseball can give strength in the face of family disintegration and make the everyday spectacular.
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s saw the arrival of a surging Chicano movement that worked towards political and social change.
Beginning in the mid 1970s, a small number of Chicano artists, writers, intellectuals, and organizations began moving from East Los Angeles into Highland…
Mechicano was one of the earliest Chicano arts organizations to emerge in Los Angeles, founded in 1969 by community organizer Victor Franco at its original location in the La Cienega arts district.
1966, Family matriarch Josefina Duardo decided to move to the neighborhood with her nine children from East Los Angeles after being told by relatives of Highland Park's peaceful and natural setting.
A multi-faceted group of Chicano and Chicana activists emerged during the 1960s and 1970s, spurred on by the United Farm Workers, the Black Civil Rights movement and the struggle against the Vietnam War.
The Chicano Moratorium was a collective effort to raise awareness of the Vietnam War as a civil rights issue, one among many affecting the Chicano community.
Centro de Arte Publico was founded in 1977 on 56th and Figueroa in Highland Park, producing works that focused on Los Angeles street scenes and urban Chicana/o youth.
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, drafted at the Denver Youth Conference of 1969, was perhaps the single most important philosophical document informing early, nationalist Chicano activism.
