Using their uniforms to express “Brown Pride,” the “Brown Berets” were young Chicano/a activists who, like the Black Panthers, focused on issues such as unemployment, housing, food, & education. In order to call attention to the unequal educational system in East LA in 1968, the Brown Berets organized “blowouts,” where hundreds of Eastside Mexican American public schools students walked out of class the first wk of March in protest of the inferior educational conditions. Credit: LA Times
