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1960s Brown Berets Founded
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-28 at 5.36.34 PM_thumb.png2023-03-29T00:37:23+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4912"Founded in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, the Brown Berets were an influential community-based social justice organization that played a leading role in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. “The Brown Berets were originally formed as the Young Citizens for Community Action in 1966 and were active in Los Angeles’ Eastside neighborhoods. The name was changed to Young Chicanos for Community Action in 1967. Members wore brown berets as a symbol of unity and resistance, which inspired the organization’s third name. The Brown Berets took on a range of social and political issues that plagued the Mexican American and Chicanx barrios of the Eastside in various sectors of life, including educational inequality, healthcare access, police brutality, and wartime casualties. They were active predominantly in the unincorporated area of East Los Angeles, though they also had a strong presence in Lincoln Heights and Boyle Heights. In addition to their successful marches and rallies one of the Brown Berets' most important accomplishments was the establishment of El Barrio Free Clinic on Whittier Boulevard in 1969.”"plain2023-10-16T20:53:08+00:001960Latinx Movements and ActivismGina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49