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Austin Chicano Huelga: Then & Now
Join our intern Matthew Medina on a tour of the sites associated with the advocacy and organizing of the Austin Chicano Huelga Movement.
The Austin Chicano Huelga: Making East Austin Historic
In the early 1970s, East Austin was the setting of a two-and-a-half-year-long labor strike by the overwhelming majority Mexican American workforce of the Economy Furniture Industries plant.