The Battle of the West Side: How Minnesota’s Chicano Movement Built an Unbreakable Legacy
In the fall of 1972, young activists marched down Concord Street carrying the Chicano eagle alongside Our Lady of Guadalupe, turning the eve of Mexican Independence Day into an undeniable declaration of presence. For three decades, municipal authorities in St. Paul tried to quiet Mexican families, reduce them to cheap labor, and bulldoze their historic lowland neighborhood on the West Side Flats. But out of displacement came an indestructible safety net. In this episode of Pionerd: The Minnesota Edition, host Robert Thomas details the century-long fight for Mexican-American civil rights in…
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