Chávez, César (founder). El Malcriado: The Official Voice of the United Farmworkers (1969–1973) documents the organizing strategies, political demands, and cultural expression of the United Farm Workers during the height of the Chicano Movement and farm labor struggle in California. Published in Delano as a bilingual labor newspaper, the periodical.....
Sánchez, Ricardo. Canto y Grito Mi Liberación (y lloro mis desmadrazgos.) established its author as a major voice in Chicano poetry and stands as an early and forceful statement of carceral experience, political self-fashioning, and cultural insurgency within the Chicano Movement. Published in 1971, shortly after Sánchez’s years of incarceration.....
Chavez, Cesar. Press photo archive, 1968–1990s, documenting leadership within the United Farm Workers and the broader Chicano labor movement across multiple decades of activism. These images trace Chavez’s role in organizing farmworkers during and after the Delano Grape Strike, his use of nonviolent protest including fasting, and his later advocacy.....
1955–1964 The Hispanic American Historical Review issues documenting the consolidation of Latin American history as a formal academic discipline in the United States. These issues matter as direct evidence of how the field was structured, debated, and standardized within mid-twentieth-century universities during a period of expanding area studies programs and.....
Two press photographs, circa 1970, documenting Chicano activism and leadership during the Mexican American civil rights organizing of the period. One photograph records a walkout by Mexican American participants at a national conference; the other shows Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales engaging residents of a Denver housing project. Two silver gelatin press.....
[Latinx, Chicano, Mexico] [Social Activist] United Farm Workers. Historic 1970s poster for a benefit concert and dinner in order to fundraise for the United Farm Workers (UFW) at the St. Martin House in Madison, Wisconsin. Poster is red and black and features a detailed illustration of Emilio Zapata. 17" x......
[Chicano Activism] National La Raza Law Students Association. Four issues of Justicia O...!, the bilingual Los Angeles Chicano activist newspaper, covering Oscar Zeta Acosta, Rubén Salazar, the United Farm Workers, and the East Los Angeles Barrio Defense Committee from November 1970 to March 1971. Across these early issues, Justicia O..!.....
[Latinx, Chicano, Mexico] [Literature] Gonzales, Rodolfo. I Am Joaquin/Yo Soy Joaquin. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1972. First trade edition (preceded by the very rare author's self-published edition). Text in Spanish and English. 122 pages. Softcover with images and illustrations of the Chicano Movement throughout. Measures 4.5" x 5.5". Described as "the.....
El Popo student newspaper archive, 1970–1991, documents the sustained role of Chicano student journalism as an organizing instrument within the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán (MEChA) network and the broader Chicano Movement. Founded in 1970 by students responding to the absence of Chicana and Chicano perspectives in mainstream media, El.....
[Chicano Literature] Acosta Zeta, Oscar. The Revolt of the Cockroach People. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. First printing. 258 pages. Hardcover book in original cloth binding with publisher's dust jacket. Famed Chicano lawyer and activist Oscar Z. Acosta's semi-autobiographical novel, written in the style of Gonzo journalism.....
[Chicano] [Photography] Ballis, George. Basta! La Historia de Nuestra Lucha, or Enough! The Tale of Our Struggle. Delano: Farm Workers Press, 1966. First Edition Softcover. 72 pages. Measures 7.5" x 11". Contains roughly 75 black and white images of farmworkers and activists throughout. Ballis was an American photographer and activist.....
[Chicano] [Photography] Ballis, George. Basta! La Historia de Nuestra Lucha, or Enough! The Tale of Our Struggle. Delano: Farm Workers Press, 1966. First Edition Softcover. 72 pages. Measures 7.5" x 11". Contains roughly 75 black and white images of farmworkers and activists throughout. Ballis was an American photographer and activist.....
The aftermath of the Puerto Rican civil unrest in East Harlem, New York City, during the summer of 1967. Two black-and-white silver gelatin press release photographs dated July 25 and August 1, 1967. Verso captions from the Associated Press (AP) identify the location as Spanish Harlem and note the events.....
Brochure in newspaper format calling for support of Ricardo Chavez Ortiz, who hijacked a Fronteri Arilines 737 from Albuquerque to Los Angeles to gain a public forum for injustice towards Chicanos. Independently published, possibly by the Chavez Defense Fund. He conducted interviews aboard the plane with Spanish-language stations, after which.....
[Chicano Literature] ACOSTA, Oscar Zeta. The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. First edition trade paperback. 8vo; 199p., multiple black and white illustrations, pictorial wraps. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer, author, and activist who and the model for Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear.....
[ Mexican-American], [Chicano Movement] An important and empowering magazine illuminating Latinx history. Agenda: A Journal of Hispanic Issues. Washington DC: National Council of La Raza, 1974. Pictorial wrappers with bold lettering. Measures 8.5" x 11". 27 pages total. Agenda Magazine was a bimonthly publication published by the Office of Public.....
[Prison Abolition] Lifetime in Prison: The Case of Eddie Sanchez. Committee to Free Eddie Sanchez, April 1975. Kansas City, Missouri. Pamphlet, 4 pages. 8.5" x 11." Lifetime prisoner Eddie Sanchez had been subjected to injections of Anectine in prison during aversion therapy, a practice used to modify behaviors by building.....
[Chicano] [Mexican-American] El Grito: A Journal of Contemporary Mexican-American Thought. Berkley: Quinto Sol Publications, 1969-1974. Archive of 2 journals. Each have 84 pages. El Grito was published to highlight scholarship and creative work by Mexican Americans from the United States between 1967 and 1974. Included in this archive are; [1].....
[Chicano] [Social Activism] La Causa Chicana: The Movement for Justice. New York: Family Service Association of America, 1972. Original red cloth boards with gilt illustrations and text on spine. Original cream dust jacket with red, green, and black arrows and black text. 8vo. 218 pages. Multiple contributions by Chicano authors.....
[Chicano Liberation] [La Raza Commission] Review of Work: Chicano Commission original mimeographed document. 2 pages, 8.5" x 11." New York: Communist Party USA. 20 November 1971. Prepared in time for the Northern California district convention, this sheet lists various shortcomings of the Communist Party's La Raza commission. It concludes with.....
[Chicano] CASTRO, Tony. Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America. Saturday Review Press. 1974. First edition. Cloth board with decorated dust jacket. Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America became the literary benchmark in ethnic studies programs in education institutions throughout the country. After the civil rights movements of the.....
United Farm Workers. Boycott Non-UFW Grapes. Keene, CA: UFW, circa 1970. 12" x 3.5" inch bumper sticker. This bumper sticker was produced as part of a grassroots effort to support UFW farmworkers during the Delano Grape Strike, which started in September 1965. The striking workers, led by Cesar Chavez and.....
“Join the Grape Strike in Greater Los Angeles in 1970…Boycott Non-Union Grapes” United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. 1970. Broadside Poster 11” x 8.5”. On September 8, 1965, one of the most important strikes to the American working class was set in motion that would last over the next five years.....
[Chicano] [United Farm Workers] Pérez, José G. Viva la Huelga! The Struggle of the Farm Workers. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1973. Illustrated staple bound orange wrappers with black and white text, and illustration of Mexican men, women, and children holding UFW flags and fists raised. 16 pages. Measures 5.5" x......
[Chicano Literature] Vasquez, Richard. Chicano. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1970. Stated first edition. 8vo; 376pp. Original black board with silver title on spine, pictorial dust jacket, mylar covering. Vasquez's Chicano quickly became a bestseller at the height of the Chicano rights and literary movement. It follows the Sandoval.....
