How did the Radical Chicana Feminist Movement Take Form?
One of the main events that sparked the Chicana movement was the 1969 Chicano Youth Liberation Conference. More than 1500 young men and women gathered over Easter weekend in March of that year. The conference was held in Denver, CO and was sponsored by the Crusade for Justice. It was at this meeting that “Chicano issues first gained a national platform,” and this is where the self-defining term “Chicano” was adopted. The conference focused on The Plan del Espiritu Aztlan, and was led by leaders such as Corky Gonzalez, and workers like Juanita Dominguez, Pricilla Salazar, and Marcella Lucero Trujillo. At this conference, women began to incorporate themselves into the male-dominated discussions, and rallied together to address feminist concerns at the meeting. They wanted to deal with not only issues of racism, but also sexism within their households. After leaving this conference, women went back to their communities as activists, and as a result, this signified the beginning of the Chi
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