‘La Raza’ Again Empowers L.A.’s Chicano Community

High school walkout students argue with school administrator, circa 1968. (Devra Weber)

Community protester “Shortly” from El Jardin with raised fist and Alfredo Moncayo (left), U.S. Army veteran, Roosevelt High School, Boyle Heights, circa 1969. (La Raza staff, courtesy of the photographers and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

A young Chicana hawks La Raza newspapers at the Poor People’s Campaign, Washington, D.C., 1968. (Courtesy of Maria Varela)

LAPD officers at a Los Angeles Civic Center demonstration, circa 1970. (Courtesy of Raul Ruiz and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy with a shotgun at the National Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles on Aug. 29, 1970. (La Raza staff, courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

Brown Berets Margarita Sanchez (left) and Ruth Robinson (with a camera) get arrested at the Belmont High School walkouts on March 8, 1968. (Photographer unknown, Herald-Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library)

Young activist Mary Perez is manhandled by a school administrator in Lincoln Heights, circa 1968. (La Raza staff, courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

Bail bonds agency on 3rd Street goes up in flames during La Marcha Por La Justicia, East Los Angeles, Jan. 31, 1971. (Courtesy of Maria Marquez and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

Young families join La Marcha de la Reconquista along a dusty highway through the farmland of Southern California on the way to Sacramento, circa 1971. (Courtesy of Daniel Zapata and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

Cesar Chavez (center) with United Farm Workers members, circa 1970. (Courtesy of Pedro Arias and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center) 

Protesters with signs shout “Impeach Nixon!” circa 1973. (La Raza staff, courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

Chicano supporters stand in solidarity with Native Americans and the American Indian Movement in downtown Los Angeles, circa 1972. (Courtesy of Pedro Arias and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

A shotgun is not a search warrant, circa 1970. (Courtesy of Raul Ruiz and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

I was born here. Why kick me out? Protesters march in downtown Los Angeles against the anti-Latino policies of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan, circa 1972. (Courtesy of Patricia Borjon-Lopez and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

Vietnam veterans demonstrate against the war at a MacArthur Park rally in Los Angeles, circa 1972. (La Raza staff, courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)

La Familia at the Mexican Independence Day parade in East Los Angeles in September 1970. (La Raza staff, courtesy the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center)