Anti-Vietnam War movement organized by Mexican-American activist groups (1960s-70s)
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The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. Led by activists from local colleges and members of the Brown Berets, a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with a August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30,000 demonstrators.[1][2] The march was described by scholar Lorena Oropeza as "one of the largest assemblages of Mexican Americans ever."[3] It was the largest anti-war action taken by any single ethnic group in the USA. It was second in size only to the massive U.S. immigration reform protests of 2006.[4][circular reference]
The event was reportedly watched by the Los Angeles FBI office, who later "refused to release the entire contents" of their documentation and activity.[5] The Chicano Moratorium march in East L.A. was organized by Chicano activists Ramsés Noriega and Rosalio Muñoz.[6] Muñoz was the leader of the Chicano Moratorium Committee until November 1970, when he was ousted by Eustacio (Frank) Martinez, a police informer and agent provocateur for the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Enforcement Division (ATF) of the U.S. Treasury Department, who committed illegal acts to allow the police to raid the headquarters of the committee and make arrests.[7] Muñoz had returned as co-chair of the Moratorium in February 1971.[8]
^"The Mexican-American march against the Vietnam War". BBC. 26 August 2015.
^Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Oropeza, Lorena (2005). Raza Si, Guerra No: Chicano Protest and Patriotism During the Viet Nam War Era. University of California Press. pp. 145–160. ISBN 9780520937994.
^"2006 United States immigration reform protests".
^Vigil, Ernesto B. (1999). The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 143. ISBN 9780299162245.
^Oropeza, Lorena (2005). Raza Si, Guerra No: Chicano Protest and Patriotism During the Viet Nam War Era. University of California Press. p. 155. ISBN 9780520937994.
^Kunkin, Art (1972). "Chicano Leader Tells of Starting Violence to Justify Arrests". The Chicano Movement: A Historical Exploration of Literature. Los Angeles Free Press. pp. 108–110. ISBN 9781610697088.
^Munoz, Rosalio (12 February 1971). "Rosalio Munoz speaking at UCLA 2/12/1971". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
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