The Chicana Rights Project (CRP) was a feminist organization created in 1974 to address the legal rights of poor Mexican-American women. The organization...
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educational, and economic intersections impacting Chicanas and the Chicana/o community in the United States. Chicana feminism empowers women to challenge institutionalized...
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Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (category Civil rights organizations in the United States)
1974, president of MALDEF, Vilma Martinez, created the Chicana Rights Project (CRP). The project focused on Mexican-American women's unique legal issues...
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Washington, D.C., US, now part of OpenSecrets Chicana Rights Project, to protect Mexican-American women's rights Committee for the Re-Election of the President...
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Chicano Movement (redirect from Chicano Civil Rights Movement)
the project; over 200 people worked on it in some capacity. The base of the sculpture states, “Dedicated in 2019 to Los Seis de Boulder & Chicana and...
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Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza (redirect from National Chicana Conference)
the National Chicana Conference) was held in Houston, Texas, between May 28 and May 30 in 1971. The conference marked the first time Chicanas came together...
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Rosales-Castaneda, Oscar (Spring 2012). "Writing Chicana/o History with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project". Writing History in the Digital Age....
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Chicano studies (redirect from Chicano and Chicana Studies)
Department of Chicana/o Studies, Metropolitan State College of Denver Chicana/o and Latinx Studies, University of Northern Colorado Department of Chicana & Chicano...
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Francisca Flores (category Chicana feminists)
(December 1913, San Diego California - April 1996) was a labor rights activist, an early Chicana feminist, a journal editor, and an anti-poverty activist....
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Sylvia Morales (section Future projects)
picture production. In the 1970s, the Chicana Feminist Movement was founded to address the specific needs of Chicanas as women of color in the United States...
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to influence from active civil rights and black liberation protests occurring nationally. Since the "second wave" Chicana feminist movement, many organizations...
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Feminist Movement Rosie the Riveter Chicana/Chicano Movement La Raza Dia De Los Muertos Low Rider Art LGBT Rights and Gay Liberation AIDS Memorial Quilt...
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Lesbian feminism (section Chicana lesbian feminism)
lesbian journey. Chicana lesbian feminism emerged from the Chicana feminism movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this time, Chicana feminism began...
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Chicana art emerged as part of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s. It used art to express political and social resistance through different art mediums...
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Blaxican (redirect from Afro-Chicana)
American descent. Some may prefer to identify as Afro-Chicano or Black Chicana/o and embrace Chicano identity, culture, and political consciousness. Most...
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innocence. Additionally, Chicana Artist Ester Hernandez utilizes the image of La Virgen as a political symbol fighting for the rights of Chicano/as. Hernández...
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Chicana workshop presented a resolution stating: "The Chicana women resolve not to separate but to strengthen Aztlan, the family of La Raza!" Chicana...
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa (category Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights)
Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known...
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Martha P. Cotera (category Chicana feminists)
writer, and influential activist of both the Chicano Civil Rights Movement and the Chicana Feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Her two most notable...
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Shirley Romero Otero (category Land rights movements)
Shirley Romero Otero (born 1955) is a Chicana activist who co-founded the Land Rights Council in 1977 to regain the rights for heirs of the Sangre de Cristo...
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Rosales-Castaneda, Oscar (Spring 2012). "Writing Chicana/o History with the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project". Writing History in the Digital Age....
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Irma Aguayo (section Chicana: Liberated & Empowered)
Mexican descent call themselves Chicana that Aguayo realized that she also identified as Chicana. After researching Chicana artists, she realized that there...
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights or SRHR is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and reproduction. It is a combination of four fields...
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Sterilization of Latinas (category History of Latino civil rights)
reproductive rights justice movements. These stories made many Chicanas and other women across the nation question their government and reproductive rights. In...
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Cherríe Moraga (category Chicana feminists)
for Interdisciplinary Instruction in Chicana/Chicano Studies, 1999. The Fund for New American Plays Award, a project of the John F. Kennedy Center for the...
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Sex workers' rights encompass a variety of aims being pursued globally by individuals and organizations that specifically involve the human, health, and...
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to promote and protect the legal and political rights of women. Despite the gains made in women's rights over the past century, women in Brazil still face...
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Critical race theory (redirect from CRT (civil rights))
the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline, Tara J. Yosso discusses how the constraint of POC can be defined. Looking at the differences between Chicana/o...
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Women's suffrage (redirect from Women voting rights)
Journal de la Société de 1789, but his project failed. After World War I, French women continued demanding political rights, and despite the Chamber of Deputies...
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