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1/7 Maybe you too were left wanting more after watching Aaron Sorkin’s Netflix film “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” Latinx History was happening all around it as local communities fought against racism, inequality, state violence and the Vietnam war, here are a few highlights...
2/7 Apr 1968 – Chicago Young Lords leader Cha Cha Jiménez is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement. According to historian @JFernandez693 this was a preemptive measure to shackle local barrio dissent in the run up to the DNC.
3/7 Apr 1968 – FBI resources are deployed to Chicago to infiltrate Latinx groups and to closely monitor their plans for the DNC. FBI notes an invitation that talks about a mtg “to figure out how we fit into that movement.”
4/7 Sep/Oct 1968 – Latinx and Black high school students organize a walkout at Harrison High School to protest a racist curriculum and a neglectful administration.
5/7 Oct 4, 1968 - In aftermath of Mexican gov’s massacre of students in Mexico City, the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS) stage a demonstration against murderous authoritarianism in front of Mexican consulate in Chicago.
6/7 Jan 1969 – Hundreds of Latinx and immigrant community control activists in Pilsen oust the white middle class leadership of a neighborhood organization in a heated confrontation that summons dozens of Chicago PD officers to the barrio.
7/7 Aug 1969 - A key witness for the prosecution during the trial was Chicago PD detective Andrew Rodriguez, long time Mexican American Daley ally and personal bodyguard who testifies against Rennie Davis.
