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- Brown Berets - Wikipedia
Most chapters shared common purposes and goals with the Brown Berets, to the extent that historians and even a number of past members classified Black Berets as Brown Beret chapters with regional aims
- Brown Beret Organization
Welcome to the Official Brown Beret Org Website! The Brown Berets, as a historic Chicano Revolutionary Organization, will remain committed to their foundational principles; anyone claiming to be a Brown Beret must embrace Chicano Revolutionary ideals, as our name reflects our mission
- Brown Beret Chapters 1969-1972 - Mapping American Social Movements Project
In the barrios of Los Angeles, Chicano youth founded the Brown Berets in 1967, modeled after the Black Panther Party The organization concentrated on combatting police brutality and fighting racism but some chapters also demanded education, job, and housing equality
- Brown Berets - Encyclopedia. com
In late 1967, the YCCA opened the Piranya Coffee House as a site from which to promote community consciousness and recruit members The YCCA adopted a brown beret as a part of its uniform and thus became known as the Brown Berets
- Brown Berets - Chicano Latino History Project
A newspaper entry explaining who the Brown Berets are and their mission The entry includes a short history of the Brown Berets, their achievements, and their goals
- Brown Beret Headquarters - LA Conservancy
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 | The Chicano Movement
The Brown Berets started off in 1966 in East Los Angeles, California where a young group of Mexican-American students gathered to discuss problems affecting them
- How female Brown Berets created their own Chicana movement
Established by teenagers of Mexican descent, the Brown Berets — a group akin to the Black Panther Party in dress and ideology — played a pivotal role in organizing residents of urban areas
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