Below are some of info about the Chicano (Mexican American) civil rights group.
1. In the barrios of Los Angeles, Chicano youth founded the Brown Berets in 1967, modeled after the Black Panther Party.
2. The organization concentrated on combatting police brutality and fighting racism but some chapters also demanded education, job, and housing equality. - Washington.edu
3. On March 1, 1968, the Brown Berets planned and participated in the East LA walkouts or "blowouts" the largest and lengthiest in the history of California, in which thousands of students left their classrooms to join the protest for quality education. - PBWorks.com
4. The berets had the Brown Berets logo, which consisted of a yellow-and-brown design of a cross topped with a beret and draped by two bayoneted rifles, and on top of that the term "La Causa", borrowed from the farmworkers' struggle. The yellow represented the land Aztlan, a land stolen by the Anglo-Americans, and the brown symbolized la raza - Chicanos. The cross represented the Catholicism of most Chicanos, and the rifles stood for self defense and the use of violence as a last resort. - The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement by Mario T. García
5. The Brown Berets became the largest and most prominent Chicano barrio youth organization in the nation. At their high point, the Brown Berets had some five thousand members and ninety chapters nationwide. Most of the Brown Berets members were lower-class in origin. - Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas by Armando Navarro