this year is 2007 the 40 year aniversery of the summer of love in san francisco and the rest of the bay area at that time social and community groups like the black panters were created but there were also chicano organizations created around this time in oaklands fruitvale district groups like the oakland chapter of the brown berets and the chicano revolutionary party and also community places like lulac spanish speaking and the unity council also nel del barrio and schools like centro infantil de la raza and la escuelita and free clinics like clinica de la raza little is known about this part of bay area history but i have some pictures of the chicano movement of oakland in the sixties._____ chicano moratorium vietnam war protest on fruitvale 1970brown berets and black panthers in front of the alameda county court house in downtown oakland at a free huey rally 1968oakland chapter of the brown berets in front of fremont high 1968 Reies tijerina with local oakland chapter of the brown berets at black panther ralley 1968 chicano high school students fremont high 1968 chicano revolutionary party of oakland fruitvale district 1969 brown berets and chicano revolutionary party brekfast program in fruitvale 1969 chicano student union fremont high 1970 chicano student union 1977 fremont high chicanos students fremont high 1977..............cesar chavez the oakland connection ... cesar chavez the great civil rights leader and farm workers labor leader had many ties to the city of oakland in fact in his early days of becoming an activist he began with a group called Community Services Organization or cso in the fruitvale area having meetings in st elizabeth church he also joined togheter with oaklands latino community in many protest to open free clinics like la clinica de la raza and to open biliguel schools like la escuelita and centro infantil and against the vietnam war and police brutality he also spoke at many ralleys in oakland and protested at many safeways stores in oakland during the great grape boycott my mother even met him in oakland back in the 70s at a rally to open up the centro infantil de la raza, and he made many freinds in oakland like mayor ron dellums and former mayor lionel wilson .today his legacy still lives in oakland the cesar chavez library at the fruitvale village also the cesar chavez education center on 29th ave and e14st and cesar chavez park on foothill and 38th ave also the city of oakland and the oakland unified school district honor his birthday holiday march 31 by closing all city offices and schools si se puede en oakland tambien .here are 2 pictures of cesar chavez in oakland ...... cesar chavez at former mayor lionel wilson inaguration 1977 cesar chavez at the old safeway on broadway holding a grape boycott protest 1985cesar chaves and current oakland mayor ron dellums in west oakland 1976