Special Section Chicano Movement

Newspaper coverage 1968-79

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Chicano activists made news as well as history. Here is a month-by-month digital archive of more than 250 articles published in the UW Daily and other local newspapers between 1968 and 1979. The full list is below (click the titles to read the articles). They are also sorted by subjects: Farmworkers and the Grape Boycott; Chicano Studies at UW, Arts and Culture; El Centro de la Raza.

Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda created this database with help from Edgar Flores, Francesca Barajas, Chris Paredes, and Oscar Rosales Castañeda. These articles are courtesy of the UW Daily, Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,

 
  
1968    
9-May-68 Daily "Los Amigos" sponsor migrant labor group
7-Aug-68 Daily UW law students research migrant cases
1969    
10-Jan-69 Daily Grape growers, boycott supporters to clash
14-Jan-69 Daily Grape growers clash with boycott leaders over wages, strikes
16-Jan-69 Daily Devil's Advocate (to boycott)
17-Jan-69 Daily Protest flares over grapes on HUB lawn
21-Jan-69 Daily Student Assembly to vote on grapes
21-Jan-69 Daily Group grapples over grapes
22-Jan-69 Daily Mexican-Americans tell opposition to grapes
23-Jan-69 Daily HUB advisory board heres grape hassle
23-Jan-69 Daily Student assembly, grape strike supported
28-Jan-69 Daily The Chicano group active part of campus
28-Jan-69 Daily The Chicano group active part of campus (cont.)
28-Jan-69 Daily Administration rules free grape sales
29-Jan-69 Daily Opinion (on picketing)
29-Jan-69 Daily Grape picket line planned
30-Jan-69 Daily HUB sales down in boycott
31-Jan-69 Daily BOC hits administration for HUB grape decision
31-Jan-69 Daily HUB sales still fall lower
5-Feb-69 Daily Boycotters ask decision from president Odegaard
6-Feb-69 Daily HUB board recommends stoppage of grape sales
7-Feb-69 Daily Odegaard: Individual grape decision favored
11-Feb-69 Daily Boycott enters statistical phase, moratorium set
14-Feb-69 Daily Safeway boycott aim
25-Feb-69 Daily SDS ejects United Fruit Rep.
4-Apr-69 Daily Boycotters begin campaign against safeway grapes
8-Apr-69 Daily Hearings resume today regarding SDS officer
8-Apr-69 Daily Hearings resume today regarding SDS officer (cont.)
2-May-69 Daily An executive's defense of United Fruit
8-May-69 Daily UFW to continue protest
9-May-69 Daily "Boycott day" to target safeway
13-May-69 Daily Corky Gonzales, Wed. HUB ballroom
13-May-69 Daily Grape boycotters 80 strong at safeway
30-Sep-69 Daily Grape boycott will continue
1-Oct-69 Daily "We have a common cause"
8-Oct-69 Daily Boycotters stage march on U Villiage QFC
14-Oct-69 Daily Boycotters march to QFC
17-Oct-69 Daily Managers face boycotters
23-Oct-69 Daily Chicano group adopts new name, image (MEChA)
24-Oct-69 Daily Anti-grape campaign not dead
28-Oct-69 Daily Boycott hits three stores
4-Nov-69 Daily SEP seeks education aid to minority students
21-Nov-69 Daily Conservative Analysis: Grape gripe
3-Dec-69 Daily Cesar Chavez here Dec. 19
9-Dec-69 Daily Farmworkers suffer from pesticides
10-Dec-69 Daily Chavez -  Dec. 19
1970    
20-Jan-70 Daily MEChA, campus and community involvement
23-Jan-70 Daily Chicanos ask "immediate dismissal" of spanish TA 
30-Jan-70 Daily 30 Chicanos March 
3-Feb-70 Daily Larios resigns after language hassle
4-Feb-70 Daily Larios decision
5-Feb-70 Daily MEChA attacks daily editorial
10-Feb-70 Daily Professor asks for investigation of Larios incident
11-Feb-70 Daily Faculty Senate to probe Larios investigation
13-Feb-70 Daily Larios: Language department problem?
18-Feb-70 Daily Larios wouldn't have been rehired anyway
20-Feb-70 Daily Grape Boycott Conspiracy
20-Feb-70 Daily Grape Boycott Conspiracy (cont.)
24-Apr-70 Daily Today in HUB Delano Story told
29-Apr-70 Daily Larios case may reopen
5-May-70 Daily AAUP asks U senate to reopen Larios case
28-May-70 Daily Grape Boycotters want U to Fast
13-Nov-70 Daily MEChA and AASC demand more office space
19-Nov-70 Daily UFW union to picket Dow Co.
2-Dec Daily UFW gets small audience
1971    
24-Feb-71 Daily Chicano teacher on liberation
25-Feb-71 Daily Washington State senate passes chicano commission bill
5-Mar-71 Daily Call for third world youth to organize
5-Mar-71 Daily Oppression of female farm workers
9-Mar-71 Daily Chicano theater organizer speaks
13-Apr-71 Daily Chicanos and Pringle meet over advisor dismissal
14-Apr-71 Daily Chicanos march over Acevez removal
20-Apr-71 Daily Washington state Chicano Studies organization plans conference 
21-Apr-71 Daily Chicanos accept Pringle's answer
11-May-71 Daily MEChA: Contemporary revolutionaries
11-May-71 Daily C.H.E. 
11-May-71 Daily UFW in Yakima Valley
11-May-71 Daily Brown Beret - Birth of a Symbol
11-May-71 Daily Brown Beret - Birth of a Symbol (cont.)
11-May-71 Daily Teatro Chicano: Punto del Partida
11-May-71 Daily Teatro del Piojo
11-May-71 Daily El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan
11-May-71 Daily Dorms vote on lettuce today
11-May-71 Daily Chicano Educational Oppurtunities
11-May-71 Daily Estudios Chicanos
1972    
1-Mar-72 Daily La Chispa: Chicano and Filipino Farmworkers
2-Mar-72 Daily "anglos"
3-Mar-72 Daily Chicanos ask for moritorium support
9-Mar-72 Daily Professors in Social Work give up raises to create Chicano professor position
9-Mar-72 Daily La Chispa: MEChA 's response to serveral issues
29-Mar-72 Daily Support spreads in Chicano Moritorium
29-Mar-72 Daily Moritorium in the school of social work
30-Mar-72 Daily La Chispa: Alone in Disneyland
13-Apr-72 Daily La Chispa: Inter-racial relationships
20-Apr-72 Daily La Chispa: Growers oppose farmworkers organizing in Yakima Valley
27-Apr-72 Daily La Chispa: Chicanos and Vietnam
3-May-72 Daily Blacks, Chicanos, and Women respond to daily
4-May-72 Daily MEChA opens boycott on rainer bottling company
4-May-72 Daily La Chispa: First Annual WA State MEChA Conference