El Movimiento

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El Movimiento is the Chicano civil rights movement that emerged in the 1960s to fight for Mexican American political empowerment, cultural pride, and social justice in the United States.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
El Movimiento canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Chicano civil rights movement
civil rights movement
social movement
hasCulturalExpression Chicano literature
Chicano muralism
Chicano music
linked to: Chicano rock

Chicano theater
hasEthnicFocus Chicanos
linked to: Chicano

Mexican Americans
hasGoal Mexican American political empowerment
bilingual and bicultural education
cultural pride
educational equality
end to discrimination
labor rights
land rights
political representation
social justice
voting rights
hasIdeology Chicano nationalism
anti-racism
civil rights advocacy
cultural nationalism
social justice activism
hasKeyConcept Aztlán
linked to: Aztlan

Brown Power
linked to: Yellow Power

Chicano identity
bilingual education
community control of schools
self-determination
hasKeyEvent Chicano Moratorium
Chicano student walkouts
East Los Angeles walkouts
linked to: East L.A. Walkouts

farmworker strikes and boycotts
formation of La Raza Unida Party
hasLanguage English
Spanglish
Spanish
hasMainLocation California
Southwestern United States
Texas
United States
hasPart Chicana feminist activism
Chicano arts movement
Chicano farmworker movement
linked to: Chicano movement

Chicano land grant movement
Chicano political party organizing
Chicano student movement
linked to: Chicano movement
influencedBy African American Civil Rights Movement
Mexican Revolution
farmworker struggles
startTime 1960s
timePeriod 20th century

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chicano movement alsoKnownAs El Movimiento
Brown Berets movement El Movimiento