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

by Ernesto B. Vigil

Overview

This definitive account of the Chicano movement in 1960s Denver reveals the intolerance and brutality that inspired and accompanied the urban Chicano organization known as the Crusade for Justice. Ernesto Vigil, an expert in the discourse of radical movements of this time, joined the Crusade as a young draft resistor where he met Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, the founder of the CFJ. Vigil follows the movement chronologically from Gonzales's early attempts to fight discrimination as a participant in local democratic politics to his radical stance as an organizer outside mainstream politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299162245
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	06/15/1999
Edition description:	1
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Ernesto Vigil was a member of the Crusade for Justice from 1968-1981. He began this project ten years ago when he was a research associate at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Editorial Reviews

Chicano activist Ernesto Vigil is stirring up the masses again.”—Rocky Mountain News

“A remarkable and fascinating book, rich in the history and struggles of an important era in United States and Chicano history.”—John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War

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