Fantastic Ad from Argentina in support of civil rights for all!
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This week in Chicano history: 1947 - The Mendez vs. Westminster School District case was the first successful challenge to an 1896 U.S Supreme Court doctrine that allowed “separate but equal” public facilities. thus ending the segregation of Latinos attending public schools & entering all white businesses in California, & being the reference case that eventually, 7 years later, allowed Roe vs. Wade to end segregation of all minority’s from any institutions & public areas, in America.
African-Americans weren’t the only ones..
“Boycott Grapes; Support the United Farm Workers Union”
poster by Xavier Viramontes, 1973
Arizona Summer of 2010; if you like this post, take a quick sweep of the rest of my tumblr (izofice)
Yesterday a Texas judge blocked the city of San Antonio from renaming
a street after Cesar Chavez, the late labor activist who fought for
higher wages and better working conditions for migrant farm workers.
The restraining order came just days after the City Council voted to
rename Durango…
(Source: thinkprogress.org)
Chicana Art by xicana_momma on Flickr.
(Source: skinlikeautumnleaves)
