On Nov. 10, Colorado State University-Pueblo Archives and the local Chicano community joined efforts to co-sponsor two events related to the online archive of La Cucaracha, an alternative Pueblo newspaper that focused on the Chicano …
The “El Movimiento: The Chicano Movement in Colorado and Pueblo” exhibit, which details the struggle of the Chicano Movement in Colorado during the difficult era spanning the 1960s and 1970s, is currently available to view …
The tumultuous 1960s and 1970s gave rise to Chicano activism in Colorado. Disadvantaged Hispanic-Americans fought to end discrimination, secure rights and gain political and social power through education, culture and the arts. This is still …