El Movimiento: The Chicano Movement in Northern Colorado
UNC’s Chicana/o and Latinx Studies and University Libraries have partnered to bring back the popular exhibit, El Movimiento: The Chicano Movement in Northern Colorado, immersing visitors in the urgency, passion, and vitality of one of Colorado’s most important social movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Chicano activists in Colorado fought to end discrimination, secure rights, and gain political and social power through education, culture, and the arts. Community advisors from across the state created El Movimiento in collaboration with History Colorado staff in 2017, with additions added by UNC Archives and Special Collections in 2021.
The exhibit will be on display in the lower level of Michener Library from August 2024 – May 2025.
The exhibit focuses on 9 areas of the movement:
