He describes it as a fictional memoir, having changed some names and circumstances, documenting loss and redemption, power ... started the Brown Berets, and the Chicano Movement was blossoming ...
He grew up “Chicano style,” meaning brown, poor and subject to what he ... including the anti-Vietnam War movement, the civil rights movement and, above all, the Chicano movement.
Armando Vazquez-Ramos, the founder and leader of the Chicano movement in Long Beach, was described as a leader, trailblazer, mentor, inspiration and aspiration by many who knew him during a ...