Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans/Did you know/6


 * ... that Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
 * ... that after the first demonstration by members of Católicos por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, the archbishop resigned?
 * ... that Chicanismo is a cultural movement by Mexican Americans to recapture their Mexican, Native American culture, which began in the 1930s in the Southwestern United States?
 * ... that on Christmas Eve 1969, when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School, he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
 * ... that the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles-based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987?
 * ... that Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the labor movement there?
 * ... that the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes (pictured) met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction?

2005