Above image: Cesar Chavez & Coretta Scott King, at a mass together in 1972.

See also Latino Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and Books on Black/Brown Solidarity.

Cross Cultural Solidarity: Resources on the Young Lords Party.

Catherine Lizette Gonzalez: New Book Breaks Down the History of African American and Latinx People Joining Forces to Fight Racism.

Jennifer Gordon and Robin A. Lenhardt: Conflict and Solidarity Between African American and Latino Immigrant Workers.(Note: sixty-page report.)

Juan González (of the Young Lords): Celebrating the Young Lords—Amid Revolution in Puerto Rico.

Reynaldo Leanos Jr. This underground railroad took slaves to freedom in Mexico.          

Veronica Majerol: Overlooked No More: Ralph Lazo, Who Voluntarily Lived in an Internment Camp.  About 115,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were incarcerated after Pearl Harbor, and Lazo, who was Mexican-American, joined them in a bold act of solidarity.

Carlos Martinez:Solidarity: Brief Accounts of Black and Latino Unity from the Late 1800s to the Present.

Iris Morales, of the Young Lords: Collection of articles and interviews. 

Prison Culture: Coretta Scott King, Cesar Chavez, and Solidarity with Walmart Workers.

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez: My Reflections on the Young Lords and Why They Matter More Than Ever.

Ken Seaton-Msemaji: A Story of Cesar’s Brother: Richard Chavez’ and His Connection to the UDW.

Jocelyn Sherman: Dr. King’s telegram to Cesar Chavez during his 1968 fast for nonviolence.

Philippa Strum: How Mexican immigrants ended ‘separate but equal’ in California.  (Note: explores Black and Latino collaboration in school desegregation.)

SNCC profile of Elizabeth (Betita Martinez) Sutherland, one of the two Latina members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. 

Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez recalling Stokely Carmichael meeting with Cesar Chavez.

SNCC profile of Maria Varela, one of the two Latina members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

On Maria Varela helping SNCC build ties with Reies Tijerina: Maria Varela meets Reies Tijerina at National Conference for New Politics.

VIDEOS & PODCASTS

Lecture and discussion with Lauren Araiza, author of To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers, and Bill Jennings, former Black Panther who supported the farm workers. 

Lynn Burnett:

• King’s First Letter to Chavez.
• King’s Second Letter to Chavez.
• The Minority Group Conference.
• Chavez and SNCC.
• Efforts to Divide Black and Latino Communities.

Hundreds of video interviews at the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project.  

Neil Foley discussing his book Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity.

Max Krochmal discussing Black and Brown coalitions in Texan history.

Excerpts from interviews conducted by Sonia Song-Ha Lee, during her writing of the book Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City.

Interview with Gordon Mantler:  A Look Back At The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign And How We Create Black And Brown Unity Today.

John D. Márquez, discussing his book Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South.

Cid Martinez discussing his book The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles. 

Series of video interviews with Pancho Medrano, the only Latino in the Montgomery bus boycott, and one of the few at the March on Washington.  Here is another sound-only interview with Pancho, via Tejano Voices.  See also the Pancho Medrano papers.

Laura Pulido, discussing her book Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles.

Ray Santisteban: Documentary, The First Rainbow Coalition.

Left of Black interview with historian Jakobi Williams, discussing the Chicago Black Panthers and the multiracial Rainbow Coalition. 

Dozens of video and audio interviews with Young Lords members.  The Young Lords were the Puerto Rican part of the Rainbow Coalition, which also included the Black Panthers and the White Appalachian group the Young Patriots.  Most interviews here are conducted by Young Lord leader Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez.   These videos are only one component of “The Young Lords in Lincoln Park” collection.  See also the trailer for the Young Lords documentary !Palante, Siempre Palante!, directed by Iris Morales, and “Women of the Young Lords: The Revolution within the Revolution”

Discussion of Black and Latino relations in Los Angeles and the intersections of the arts, politics, urban conflict, and coalition: Blacks and Latinos in Conflict and Cooperation: Writing Race in L.A.