Circa 1968 - 69 Civil Rights Chicano Mexican American Liberation Cuse Pin

Description: FOR SALE IS THIS 1 1/2 INCH CELLULOID PINBACK BUTTON IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE GREAT SHAPE. HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION. SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING OR BUYING. RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR AS HOWN IN THE PHOTOS OR HAS SIGNIDICANT DAMAGE OR DEFECTS NOT VISIBLE IN THE PHOTOS OR OTHERWISE NOTED. GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED. Check out my other Political and Social Protest and Cause items!I COMBINE SHIPPING CHARGES FOR MULTIPLE PURCHASES. PLEASE WAIT FOR OR REQUEST INVOICE WITH REDUCED CHARGES BEFORE PAYING. This pin was issued and sold in 1970 by the Socialist Workers Party (a U.S. communist party) to raise funds and support for the Chicano Movement which took off in 1970, and for its candidates. The ellection in November 1970 fell just months after the Chicano Moratorium March against the War in Viet Nam in Los Angeles on August 29, 1970.The pin has great Aztec style graphics and reads: CHICANO SELF DETERMINATION vote socialist workers '70. The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento, was the largest and most widespread civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican-descent people in the United States. The key years of the movement are between 1965 and 1975. 1965 was the beginning of the famous grape strike in California’s Central Valley (San Joaquin Valley) led by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and the farm workers to establish a union for farm workers that would not only bring them much-deserved wage and benefit increases, but a sense of dignity for their labor and for themselves.The Chicano Movement was characterized at one level by the continuation of a longer civil rights movement, led initially by the “Mexican American Generation” of the 1930s through the 1950s that initiated the first major civil rights movement by Mexican Americans in the United States.The Chicano Movement called for the Chicano community to be able to control its own resources and determine its own future. It called for community control of its schools, its economy, its politics, and its culture. The Chicano Generation understood that as part of its self-empowerment, it had to have a sense of its history—a history that had been denied it in the schools. Mexicans were not supposed to have a history in the U.S., yet the Chicano Generation instinctively recognized that it had a history or counter-history that it needed to discover. This meant exploring its indigenous and mestizo (Indian and Spanish, and even African and Asian) past: its roots in Mexican history, including Mexico’s war with the U.S.; the Mexican Revolution of 1910; and the history of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. This search for a relevant and useable past led to the development of the field of Chicano history as part of the movement’s efforts to establish Chicano Studies programs at universities and colleges. Similar to the Black Power movement, the Chicano Movement experienced heavy state surveillance, infiltration, and repression from U.S. government informants and agent provocateurs through organized activities such as COINTELPRO. Movement leaders were ousted from their positions of leadership by government agents, organizations such as MAYO and the Brown Berets were infiltrated, and political demonstrations such as the Chicano Moratorium became sites of police brutality, which led to the decline of the political movement by the mid-1970s. SHIPPING TO DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES IS THROUGH USPS GROUND ADVANDAGE. CHARGE IS $5.50 OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES SHIPPING IS THROUGH EBAY'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM. EBAY SETS THE TERMS AND CHARGES.Thanks.

Price: 19.95 USD

Location: Ojai, California

End Time: 2024-11-20T22:58:54.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.5 USD