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Carlos Montes, founding member of the Brown Berets, talks about his decades-long involvement and activism in the Brown Berets, the Brown Power movement, MEChA, the East L.A. blowouts, the Chicano moratorium against the Vietnam War, the anti-Iraq war protests, his political persecution at the hands of federal and local authorities.
Carlos M. Montes is a nationally respected leader in the Chicano, immigrant rights, and anti-war movements. He was a co-founder of the Brown Berets, a Chicano working class organization in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Brown Berets were inspired by and often compared to the Black Panther Party.
Montes played an active role in such as PODER (Proactive Organization Dedicated to Empowerment of Raza) and the 1968 Blowouts. The legal documents pertain to the State of California vs Carlos Montes, Biltmore Case and the East LA 13 court case. Smaller series include publications, newsletters,
Carlos Montes interview February 18, 2018, El Sereno, Los Angeles, CA. Background. My parents came from Mexico, I was raised in Juarez, I was born in El Paso but then I went to school in South LA, Miramonte Elementary School, Edison Middle School. I got into music. And then we moved to Boyle Heights from South LA.
Formed an alliance with BPP and supported land struggles in New Mexico. In June 1968, Carlos participated in the Poor People Campaign prior to Martin Luther King’s passing, on bus and stopping at cities from LA to Washington DC and protesting in solidarity blacks, chicanos, and indigenous natives.
Carlos Montes (1947- ) is a nationally respected leader in the Chicano, immigrant rights, and anti-war movements. Montes was born December 28, 1947 in El Paso, Texas while his family lived in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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