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Bookmark or Share- Brown Berets - WikipediaThe Brown Berets (Spanish: Los Boinas Cafés) is a pro-Chicano paramilitary organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement in the late 1960s. [2] [3] David Sanchez and Carlos Montes co-founded the group modeled after the Black Panther Party. [4] [5] The Brown Berets was part of the Third World Liberation Front.
- How 1968 East LA Student Walkouts Ignited the Chicano MovementCarlos Montes was a student at East Los Angeles College in 1968 and a member of the Brown Berets, an activist Chicano group that helped execute the walkouts. Two years before, Montes himself...
- Brown Berets - Encyclopedia.comIn 1971, the Brown Berets conducted a March Through Aztlán, marching one thousand miles from Calexico, California, to the state's capital, Sacramento, to protest police brutality, racial discrimination, and the Vietnam War.
- Formation: The Little Known History Of The Brown Berets - VIBE.comCirca 1972, The Brown Berets occupied Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles to protest the United States illegally seizing and occupying Mexican/Indigenous land.
- Brown Beret Chapters 1969-1972 - Mapping American Social Movements ProjectIn the barrios of Los Angeles, Chicano youth founded the Brown Berets in 1967, modeled after the Black Panther Party. The organization concentrated on combatting police brutality and fighting racism but some chapters also demanded education, job, and housing equality.
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