Latino arts, history and culture
Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, author and lifelong champion for the rights of Latinos in the United States and oppressed people worldwide passed away on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 in San Francisco, … [Read more...]
The 1969 Denver Youth Conference attracted more than 1500 Mexican American and Puerto Rican youth from throughout the United States to discuss an ideological framework for the incipient Chicano … [Read more...]
Betita Martinez is a social activist and author who published 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures in 1994. The book is a compilation of graphics and photos that chronicles Chicano history from … [Read more...]
ELIZABETH "BETITA" MARTÍNEZ, POLITICAL ACTIVIST The daughter of a Mexican immigrant, Manuel Guillermo Martinez, who arrived in the United States in 1917 with only $10 in his … [Read more...]
Prior to 1940, a generation of Mexican American youth who grew up in the Segundo Barrio neighborhood of El Paso, Texas had enlisted in the National Guard. In November of 1940, the National Guard was … [Read more...]
United Farm Worker's President and American civil rights icon César Estrada Chávez died on April 23, 1993 at the age of 66 years. A week prior to his death, he was on a national tour to call attention … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 1945 USS Indianapolis Torpedoed 2 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. After the U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, 900 men clung to rafts and fought off … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 1945 USS Indianapolis3 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. On July 30, 1945, a Japanese Imperial Navy submarine torpedoed and sank the U.S.S. Indianapolis in the Pacific. Because of its … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 1945 U.S.S. Indianapolis Torpedoed from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. On July 30, 1945 the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the … [Read more...]
Thanks to the efforts of David Contreras Latinopia is offering the following links to internet sources for Chicano Latino art, literature, music, history and … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event Apache Wars2 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In his book, The Apache Wars, Dr. Paul Andrew Hutton chronicles the war against the Apache people that the United States government waged … [Read more...]
In 1968, the United Farm Workers were in the third year of a struggle to get California grape growers to sign just contracts with the union. But the strike was becoming ever more violent. Beaten by … [Read more...]
En Paz Descanses Jorge He walked into the huge cafeteria at John Kennedy High School in San Antonio’s southwest side off General McMullen Drive looking for the “Lideres de MAYO” he said. … [Read more...]
Henry Darrow - A Remembrance By Dr. Frank Javier García Berumen Henry Darrow, veteran Latino actor of stage, film, and television; as well as social activist passed away on March 14th, in … [Read more...]
In 1937 San Antonio, Texas was the center of pecan production in the United States. More than 12,000 people worked at shelling pecans for America's markets. When management decided to cut back on … [Read more...]
This photograph commemorates the painting of an international mural on a wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland coordinated by a Chicano muralist, Victor Ochoa, in July of 1997. How a Chicano from San … [Read more...]
EMMA TENAYUCA, LABOR ORGANIZER Born on December 21, 1916, Emma Tenayuca was the eldest of eleven children who was raised by her maternal grandparents in San Antonio, Texas. Perhaps best known … [Read more...]
During the 1930s, in the shadow of the Great depression, massive numbers of Mexicans who had lived in the United States for years were deported to Mexico. Their children, who were born in the United … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA MUSIC TIMELINE 100 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO MUSIC 1900 Gregorio Cortéz, a Tejano, kills a deputy who attempts to arrest him unjustly and flees for his life. Cortéz is eventually … [Read more...]
100 YEARS OF CHICANO/LATINO LITERATURE 1900 Gregorio Cortéz, a Tejano, kills a deputy who attempts to arrest him unjustly and flees for his life. Cortéz is eventually captured, tried by an … [Read more...]
100 YEARS OF LATINO THEATER IN AMERICA 1900 In Ybor City and Tampa, Florida, Cuban mutual aid societies like El Centro Español de West Tampa, Círculo Cubano and other self-help civic organizations … [Read more...]
