“The Most Turbulent and Most Traumatic Years in Recent Mexican-American History”: Police Violence and the Civil Rights Struggle in 1970s Texas

Brent M. S. Campney

doi:10.1353/swh.2018.0050

“The Most Turbulent and Most Traumatic Years in Recent Mexican-American History”: Police Violence and the Civil Rights Struggle in 1970s Texas

Southwestern Historical Quarterly ◽

10.1353/swh.2018.0050 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 122 (1) ◽

pp. 33-57

Author(s):

Brent M. S. Campney

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

American History ◽

Mexican American ◽

Police Violence ◽

Mexican American History

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Dictionary of Mexican American History

Journal of American History ◽

10.2307/1901204 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 69 (4) ◽

pp. 953

Author(s):

Albert M. Camarillo ◽

Matt S. Meier ◽

Feliciano Rivera

Keyword(s):

American History ◽

Mexican American ◽

Mexican American History

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The Chicano Movement: Mexican American History and the Struggle for Equality

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology ◽

10.1163/15691497-12341465 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (1-2) ◽

pp. 31-52

Author(s):

Carlos Muñoz

Keyword(s):

High School Students ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Mexican American ◽

Historical Context ◽

School Students ◽

Mexican American History ◽

Mass Protest ◽

The 1960S

Abstract The Chicano/Chicana movement was a product of the global eruption that took place in 1968. A critical understanding of this movement requires that it be put into a historical context and theoretical framework of an indigenous people who were internally colonized by the expanding us Empire after the end of the us-Mexico War of 1846-48. Violent and nonviolent struggles took place prior to the 1960s over the issues of land, social justice, and civil rights. The first nonviolent and largest Mexican American mass protest in us history occurred in the Spring of 1968 in East Los Angeles, California, where over ten thousand Chicano high school students walked out of their inferior and racist barrio high schools. The student walkouts ignited the emergence of the Chicano civil rights movement. The movement’s positive contributions and failures will be discussed. Discussion will conclude with a critical analysis of Mexican American struggles in the present age of “Trumpism”.

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