Chicano Movement Protest in Downtown El Paso

Chicano Movement Protest in Downtown El Paso

Sept. 16, 1971
El Paso, Texas
"Included Faroh workers’ participation" - Farah is as written on the back of the photograph

Image Description: A large crowd of people march for the Chicano Movement in downtown El Paso in 1971. They walk behind The Hotel Paso Del Norte. There are a few signs around the surrounding buildings to the left that say, “Als”, “Myrons”, “JC Penny Co” and to the right “Lyns”. A young girl to the far left of the crowd holds a Mexican flag. She is sitting on the shoulders of a young man with a long haircut that stops at his cheeks. She is wearing pants with Venus and Mars gender symbols on them that represent solidarity. A woman below her wears a sun hat with a shirt that says University of Colorado. Two men to the left wear a t shirt that reads “Alviane”.

Area: Central / Downtown

Source: Private Collection

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

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Really cool

This protest is one of several organized by M.A.Y.A. (Mexican American Youth Association) in and around the Diez y Seis de Septiembre throughout the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. The Farah Strike, which involved mostly Chicana workers and sought union recognition, fair treatment of workers, better pay, and better working conditions, was supported by the Movimiento. Guys wearing the Aliviane tee shirts were staff of an anti-drug program existing at the time.

Protesters are standing in street between J.C. Penny's Company and the Popular in El Paso, TX Sept 16, 1971. View looks west toward Hotel Paso del Norte.

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