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The Chicano Movement was more than just a civil rights movement. It was a movement for social change, equality and social justice that sought to eradicate racial discrimination and subordination of Mexican Americans on multiple fronts: cultural, economic, education and political in the five southwestern states of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas and beyond.

In San Antonio the Chicano Movement inspired the formation of several community organizations that waged sustained struggle against the Establishment on these fronts for more than a decade. Their struggle transformed race and power relations in local institutions and politics that had persisted since the separation of Texas from Mexico. This website will collect and document the history of these organizations and the activists that formed them. (A partial listing of these organizations appears below.) In time the website will expand to include the history of the Chicano Movement in the State and beyond.