For the Belgian military formation known as the "Brown Berets", see Belgian United Nations Command.
Brown Berets
Founder
David Sanchez
Carlos Montes
Founded
1967 (1967)
Dissolved
1972 (officially) (1972 (officially))
Preceded by
Young Citizens for Community Action (1966-1967)
Young Chicanos for Community Action (1967)
Newspaper
La Causa (1967-1977)[1]
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Chicanismo
Anti-capitalism
Anti-fascism
Anti-racism
Anti-imperialism
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Left-wing to far-left
Colors
Brown and yellow
Slogan
"Serve — Observe — Protect"
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The Brown Berets (Spanish: Los Boinas Cafés) is a pro-Chicano paramilitary organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement in the late 1960s.[2][3] David Sanchez and Carlos Montes co-founded the group modeled after the Black Panther Party.[4][5] The Brown Berets was part of the Third World Liberation Front. It worked for educational reform, farmworkers' rights, and against police brutality and the Vietnam War.[6] It also sought to separate the American Southwest from the control of the United States government.[7]
The Brown Berets' high visibility and paramilitary stance made it a key target for infiltration and harassment by local police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other law enforcement agencies.[3] The majority of the Brown Berets' chapters disbanded in 1972.[8] Several groups reformed and became active after the passage of California Proposition 187 in 1994.
^"La Causa". Online Archive of California. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
^"The Chicana/o Civil Rights Movement · Chicana/o Activism in the Southern Plains Through Time and Space". plainsmovement.com. Retrieved November 4, 2022.
^ abFlores, Paul (2012). "To Protect and To Serve: Effects of the Relationship Between the Brown Berets and Law Enforcement". History in the Making. 5 (6) – via California State University, San Bernardino.
^Randy Gamez. "Home". nationalbrownberets.com. Archived from the original on November 18, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
^"Brown Berets | Encyclopedia.com". Cengage Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
^Zaragosa, Vargas (2001). "Chicanos and the Shaping of the Left". Science and Society. 65 (1): 131–136. doi:10.1521/siso.65.1.131.20895. JSTOR 40403887.
^Martinez, Nydia A. (2015). "Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s". History Etds: 61.
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