LA Riots April and May 1992

Hernan Cortés invades Mexico and devastates Aztec Empire, 1519

San Antonio, TX was founded on Payaya Native land, 1718

Absalom Jones

Indian Removal Act, 1830

Mexican-American War, 1846-1848

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848

Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States, 1882

The Dawes Act of 1887

The Mexican Repatriation, 1929-36

The Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934

Battle of the Alamo

Pecan Sheller’s Strike led by Emma Tenayuca, 1938

Japanese Internment in the United States, 1942-1945

The Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, June 3-8, 1943

228 Massacre Taiwan

Partition of India, 1947

Communist Revolution in China, 1949

Korean War, 1950-1953

Operation Wetback, Summer 1954

Vietnam War, 1955-1975

Bandung Conference, 1955

The Indian Relocation Act of 1956

The Chicano Art Movement, 1960’s – present

United Farm Workers Movement led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, 1962-1970

Cultural Revolution in China, 1966-1976

Founding of The Black Panthers, 1966

Founding of The Brown Berets, 1967

The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts, March 6, 1968

The Chicano Moratorium

Student and Worker Uprising

The American Indian Movement (AIM), founded July, 1968

The Occupation of Alcatraz, November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971

Navajo-Hopi Struggle to Protect the Big Mountain Reservation, 1974

Black History Month, 1976

The 808 Drum Machine, 1980-83

Murders of Filipino labor activist Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes

Murder of Chinese-American Vincent Chin, June 23, 1982

Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989

Nirvana – Nevermind album, 1991

Lollapalooza Music Festivals

LA Riots April and May 1992

Dr Dre – The Chronic, December 15, 1992

The Zapatista Movement: The Fight for Indigenous Rights in Mexico

California Proposition 187, November 8, 1994

The Gustafsen Lake standoff, August-September 1995

Michelle Kwan at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics

Hurricane Hugo Hits SC September, 1998

United States Invasion of Iraq, 2003

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Occupy Wall Street, 2011

Formation of Black Lives Matter Network, 2013

Umbrella Revolution, Hong Kong, 2014

Dia de los Muertos (Los Angeles)