National Chicano Advocacy Groups: The Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and the La Raza Unida Party (LRUP), 1970s
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- National Chicano Advocacy Groups: The Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and the La Raza Unida Party (LRUP), 1970s
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La Raza Unida Party (LRUP) created the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in Crystal City, Texas, as part of Plan de Aztlán. MAYO had been started by five students at St. Mary's University in Austin, Texas in 1967 (see Section 6.12 on Advocacy in K-12 schools for the MAYO chapter in Santa Clara County). Inspired by the Black Civil Rights Movement and by leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, LRUP was a Mexican American third party movement that supported candidates for elective office in Texas, California, and eventually in other areas of the Southwest and Midwest.
Ernesto Galarza, then teaching in Santa Clara County, was elected Chairman of the La Raza Unida Party Conference at an organizational meeting in 1967. La Raza Unida began as a loose confederation of Latino/Mexican American civic, social, and cultural groups whose representatives were in El Paso to attend hearings of the U.S. Cabinet Committee on Mexican American Affairs. By their second conference in San Antonio in January 1968, chapters were being organized throughout the United States. While LRUP achieved some local success in elective offices in Texas, its greatest accomplishment was to inspire greater participation in the electoral process and advocate for the interests of the Latino community. - Additional Online Information
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LA RAZA UNIDA PARTY
- The historical legacy of the Raza Unida Party | The California-Mexico Studies Center, Inc.
- Raza Unida Party Chapters 1970-1974 - Mapping American Social Movements
- UNITED WE WIN: The Rise and Fall of La Raza Unida. By Ignacio M. This book addresses the background situations and conditions in
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- B4SV Exhibit Topic Six: Slide 007
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- Topic Six Gallery
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- Chicano Student Rally