12 Facts About Brown Berets

Brown Berets are a pro-Chicano organization that emerged in the late 1960s during the Chicano Movement.

Ideology of the Brown Berets was primarily represented by Chicanismo, a philosophy that included communication with the Black Panther Party in Los Angeles.

Brown Berets organized the first Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War in 1970, and a few months later the National Chicano Moratorium March where close to 20,000 Chicanos marched and protested the high casualty rate of Chicanos in Vietnam and the military draft.

In 1972, twenty-six Brown Berets staged the Occupation of Catalina Island, claiming it for Chicanos and the Brown Berets.

The Brown Berets were involved in marches, anti-war protests, student walkouts, and gained significant national media attention when they staged an invasion of the Catalina Islands near Los Angeles in August 1972.

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Brown Berets did not have any restrictions or requirements that were specifically listed to join.

The Brown Berets were mainly made up of people in their teens and early twenties.

Women in the Brown Berets established important community institutions such as the Barrio Free Clinic, which TELACU later institutionalized.

Brown Berets set up the Benito Juarez Health Clinic in Chicago in 1972.

San Diego Brown Berets took over a piece of land in Logan Heights that was supposed to be a highway patrol sub-station.

Brown Berets were infiltrated by government employees and subversives working for outside organizations including but not limited to the FBI, LAPD, CWP, ATF, and other law enforcement agencies and organizations working to co-opt the Chicano movement.

Salt Lake City based Rose Park Brown Berets held extensive demonstrations calling for the resignation of the city's district attorney, Sim Gill, following the killing of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal by the Salt Lake police department a few months prior.