The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1999 - History - 487 pages
This account of the Chicano movement in 1960s Denver reveals the intolerance and brutality that inspired and accompanied the organization known as the Crusade for Justice. The author, a former member of the Crusade, reveals the damaging effects of the authorities on ethnic liberation movements.
 

Contents

Rodolfo Gonzales Crusade for Justice
3
The Advent of the Crusade for Justice
18
The Poor Peoples Campaign
54
Youth Activism and the Crusades New Headquarters
64
School Protests and Youth Liberation
81
Militancy and Counterreaction
110
East Los Angeles August 29 1970
133
Education Elections Parks and Prison Activism
160
The March 17
209
The Crusade AIM and Leonard Peltier
275
Conflicts Deaths and Indictments 19731974
288
The Conspiracy Case Against John Haro
306
The System Weathers the Storm
328
Witch Hunts and Grand Juries
347
Sliding Backwards
364
Notes
385

Fights about Ideology and Structure
184
The Crusade for Justice and the American Indian Movement
201

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