Trailer for the film, Dolores (2017)
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century—and she continues the fight to this day, at 87. With intimate and unprecedented access to this intensely private mother to eleven, the film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social change. Directed by Peter Bratt.
Changing Boundaries: The History of San Jose
Changing Boundaries: The History of San Jose is a detailed documentary story of the working people, political leaders and dreamers who built the City of San Jose.
Sid Flores
Sid Flores has a Chumash Indian and Mexican heritage from Santa Barbara. Sid was an active student at San Jose State in the late 1960s and one of the founders of the Que Tal-! a Chicano Student Magazine at the college. Upon SJS graduation he went on to attend Harvard University and UC Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School, currently, he is a practicing attorney in San Jose.
Learn More:
Que Tal Chicano Student Magazine 1970’s:
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/que_tal/
Lena Manriquez
Business-Women and San Jose La Raza community leader from the early 1950s-1980s. She was an active volunteer and lead fundraising efforts at a time when the community raised funds for food and shelter from Government Service were not available for economically disadvantaged people. Most working-class Mexican women of this era worked in the agriculture fields or at the Food Canneries of San Jose.
Learn More:
Book: Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food
Processing Industry 1930 – 1950. Read this and other books by Vicki L. Ruiz
Dr. Ramon J Martinez
San Jose State studentat the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War March on August 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles. A graduate of SJS with a B.A. Degree in Sociology and a Masters Degree in Mexican American Graduate Studies from the University of Southern California (USC) where he earned a Ph.D. in Education. He is Secretary and one of the founders of La Raza Historical Society of Santa Clara Valley. LA Times Journalist Ruben Salazar was killed by police fire at the event.
Learn More:
Book: Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970
by Ruben Salazar
Book: Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam by Charley Trujillo
https://library.sjsu.edu/africana-asian-american-chicano-native-american-studies-center/chicano-collection
Black Berets por La Justicia
This photo was taken at the Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War on August 29, 1970. Pictured are San Jose Black Berets, Joel Viniegra (far right) Danny Lozano (far left). Women are unidentified. (Photo by Ramon J. Martinez)
Learn More:
The Brown Berets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Berets
https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1170&context=etd_theses
Las Hermanas Montoya with Billy Eckstin
Las Hermanas Montoya with Billy Eckstine, In the 1950's he drove the teen bobby sox crowd wild which caused great concern among America's parents because of his race, Remember this was before Elvis who adopted some of the black music styles of the time and also caused concern across middle class white parents.
