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The Crusade For Justice : Chicano Militancy And The Government’s War On Dissent

Attribution
Ernesto B. Vigil
Publication Details
Book, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
Availability
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Description
“A remarkable and fascinating book, rich in the history and struggles of an important era in United States and Chicano history.”-John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War This definitive account of the Chicano movement in 1960s Denver reveals the intolerance and brutality that inspired and accompanied the urban Chicano organization known as the Crusade for Justice. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Vigil, Ernesto B., 1948-
Subject
Places in this work
- Southwest, New
- United States
Contents
- 1. Rodolfo Gonzales’ Crusade for Justice
- 2. Politics, Police Controversies, Surveillance: The Advent of the Crusade for Justice
- 3. The Poor People’s Campaign
- 4. Youth Activism and the Crusade’s New Headquarters
- 5. School Protests and Youth Liberation
- 6. Militancy and Counterreaction
- 7. East Los Angeles, August 29, 1970
- 8. Colorado in the Early 1970s: Education, Elections, Parks, and Prison Activism
- 9. La Raza Unida Party: Fights about Ideology and Structure
- 10. Wounded Knee as a Prelude: The Crusade for Justice and the American Indian Movement
- 11. Death and Destruction on Downing Street: The March 17 Confrontation
- 12. The Crusade, AIM, and Leonard Peltier
- 13. Conflicts, Deaths, and Indictments, 1973-1974
- 14. The Conspiracy Case Against John Haro
- 15. The System Weathers the Storm
- 16. Witch Hunts and Grand Juries
- 17. Sliding Backwards
ISBN
- 0299162249
- 0299162206
LCCN
- 98051514
Open Library ID
- /b/OL388366M