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El Popo Chicano Newspaper

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El Popo Chicano Newspaper

San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, CA

January 1972

 

In the 1960s, a radicalized Mexican-American movement began pushing for a new identification. The Chicano Movement, aka El Movimiento, advocated social and political empowerment through a chicanismo or cultural nationalism. Independently published newspapers were critical in the formation and documentation of the movement.