LATINOPIA EVENT 1970 CHICANO MORATORIUM
https://vimeo.com/67539695?share=copy&fl=cl&fe=ci In 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War, Mexican Americans and other Latinos were dying at a rate disproportionate to their numbers in the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1943 ZOOT SUIT RIOTS
In 1943, gangs of American servicemen attacked young Mexican American youth dressed in Zoot Suits, beat them and ripped off their clothes. This infamous incident, that lasted a week, became known as … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1940 ORIGINS OF THE PACHUCOS
In the 1940s, in response to widespread discrimination by American society, Mexican American youth created their own counter-culture movement. They called themselves pachucos and they had their own … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT THE COMPLETE ERNESTO GALARZA STORY
Ernesto Galarza (August 15, 1905 – June 22, 1984) was a Chicano labor organizer, activist, professor, poet, writer, storyteller, and a key figure in the history of immigrant farm workers in … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA ON PACHUCOS
Latinopia History Montoya on Pachucos from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In this excerpt from the documentary Visions of Aztlán, acclaimed poet and artist José Montoya recalls the scapegoating of … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2026 RENEE NICOLE GOOD PROTEST
On January 7, 2026, Renee Good, a mother of three, was killed by an Immigration and Custom Enforcement agent. The killing was captured on videotape causing many to declare the event a brazen murder by … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1969 CHICANO STUDIES CREATED
The Chicana and Chicano Studies department at California State University Northridge was created in the Spring of 1969 following turbulent protests by African American and Mexican American students … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT – 1972 OCCUPIED AMERICA IS PUBLISHED
Latinopia Event 1972 Occupied America Published from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In 1972, Dr. Rodolfo Acuña published his landmark history book, Occupied America, A History of Chicanos. Within a short … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1937 PECAN SHELLER’S STRIKE
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...]
LATINOPIA EVENT OCT 18, 2025 NO KINGS DAY IN TUCSON
On October 18, 2025, seven million Americans rose up to march and protest President Donald Trump's draconian measures to destroy American democracy and the rule of law. One of the citie sin which the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2025 NO KINGS DAY PROTEST
On June 14, 2025, more than five million American rallied together to protest President Trump's draconian and often illegal attempts to ignore the Constitution and garner more power for himself. But … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1896 TERESA URREA
Dr. David Romo is a borderlands historian with a specialty in the history of El Paso, Texas. one of the little known but important precursors to the Mexican Revolution of 1910 was the faith healer and … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2025 ANTI-TRUMP NATIONAL PROTEST
On April 5, 2025, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets from coast to coast to protest the draconian and often illegal actions taken by President Donald Trump including apprehension … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 CÉSAR CHÁVEZ FAST
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...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1930s DEPORTATIONS
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 EVENT 1325 A.D. “WHAT IS AZTLÁN?”
The term Aztlán is used throughout the barrios of the Southwest to refer to the ancient homeland of the Mexica people--the ancestors of today's Mexicans and Mexican Americans. But what exactly is … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1325 A.D. “WHERE IS AZTLÁN 1”
Around the year 1325 A.D. the Mexica people settled in the Valley of Mexico and founded what we know as the Aztec empire. According to the Codex Boturini, an Aztec pictograph scroll, the Mexicas … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1325 A.D. WHERE IS AZTLÁN 2
Latinopia continues its exploration of the possible geographic site of Aztlán, the mythic homeland of the Mexica people. The Codice Boturini, an ancient Aztec manuscript, indicates that Aztlán was … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1993 CÉSAR CHÁVEZ AT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART
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 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH
The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1932 AMÉRICA TROPICAL WHITEWASH
In 1932, the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros was invited to Los Angeles by the Chouinard Art Institute. During his six month stay, he painted three murals, the most controversial of which was … [Read more...]