Black, brown, and poor: Civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement

The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 179-210

  Mantler, Gordon ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (37)

1. Martin Luther King Jr., press conference transcript announcing Poor People's Campaign, December 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ publications/papers/ unpub/671204-003_Announcing_Poor_Peoples_campaign.htm (accessed September 9, 2005)
2. Arellanes, interview by author, November 9, 2006. Dionne Espinoza distinguishes between Arellanes's feminist nationalism as a Chicana and the feminism of middle class white women. Espinoza, "'Revolutionary Sisters': Women's Solidarity and Collective Identifi cation Among Chicana Brown Berets in East Los Angeles, 1967-1970," Aztlán 26, no. 1 (2001): 17-58
3. Quotes in Peter Ling, Martin Luther King Jr. (New York: Routledge, 2002), 297
4. Gerald McKnight, The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI and the Poor People's Campaign (Boulder co: Westview, 1998), 107
5. Harvard Sitkoff, King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop (New York: Hill & Wang, 2008), 223-31
6. Nick Kotz, Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America (Boston: Houghton Miffl in, 2005), 379-403
7. Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King Jr. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987), 394-97
8. Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (New York: Longman, 2000), 370-71
9. Rudy V. Busto, King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies López Tijerina (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 62
10. Armando Navarro, Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), 26, 39-40, 153
11. Mario T. Garcia with Bert Corona, Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 216
12. Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise, 1940-1980 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990), 114-15
13. Carlos Muñoz, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement (London: Verso, 1989), 66
14. José Angel Gutiérrez, The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998), 221
15. Vigil, The Crusade for Justice Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999), 54-63
16. Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), 196-200
17. Harvard Sitkoff and John D'Emilio. Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980 (New York: Hill & Wang, 1981), 222
18. D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 464-65
19. Charles Fager, Uncertain Resurrection: The Poor People's Washington Campaign (Grand Rapids mi: William B. Eerdmans, 1969)
20. Robert T. Chase, "Class Resurrection: The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 and Resurrection City," 40 Essays in History (1998)
21. Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun, 178-99
22. While Thomas Jackson downplays failure, he also misses the campaign's multiethnic character. From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 329-59
23. Quote from Jesse Jackson, "Resurrection City: The Dream, The Accomplishments," Ebony (October 1968): 66
24. Felicia Kornbluh, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Poverty and Politics in Modern America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 48-51
25. Patricia Bell Blawis, Tijerina and the Land Grants: Mexican Americans in Struggle for Their Heritage (New York: International, 1971)
26. Lorena Oropeza, "The Heart of Chicano History: Reies López Tijerina as a Memory Entrepreneur," The Sixties 1, no. 1 (2008): 49-67
27. Tijerina, They Called Me "King Tiger," 103
28. Tijerina, They Called Me "King Tiger," 102, 104. Also, "Poor March Subdues Militant 'Bandido,'" Washington Post, June 4, 1968
29. Mario T. García, Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology and Identity, 1930-1960 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989)
30. Tom Romero II, "Our Selma is Here: The Political and Legal Struggle for Educational Equality in Denver, Colorado, and Multiracial Conundrums in American Jurisprudence," Seattle Journal for Social Justice 3, no. 1 (2004): 73-142
31. Vigil, Crusade for Justice, 26-27, 56, 63
32. Tijerina, They Called Me 'King Tiger,' 103, 106-7
33. Charles Wilkinson, Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties and the Indian Way (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000)
34. Quote by Gloria Arellanes, interview by author. Also Washington Post, May 30-31, 1968
35. El Grito del Norte, October 31, 1968
36. Craig Hart, Crusade for Justice chaplain, interview by author, November 29, 2007, Denver co
37. Carlos Muñoz Jr., Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement (New York: Verso, 1989), 75-78