[Libs-Or] Fwd: [UWMOSAIC] How Cinco de Mayo Got Its Start Because of California's Mexican Americans

[Max Macias]

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From: Anselmo Villanueva <anselmo.villanueva at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 5, 2022 at 10:53 AM
Subject: [UWMOSAIC] How Cinco de Mayo Got Its Start Because of California's
Mexican Americans
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How Cinco de Mayo Got Its Start Because of California's Mexican Americans

"It had nothing to do with beer and nachos. It was very political." --
David Hayes-Bautista, Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino
Health and Culture (CESLAC)

by Yvonne Condes  May 3, 2022

https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/how-cinco-de-mayo-got-its-start-because-of-californias-mexican-americans?fbclid=IwAR3M_-ekNHa34hbvrkJWV3UUQl7paudQn3K0I7mflg8T_81W6znXfopKShw

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A Cinco de Mayo celebration at Belvedere Park in 1957. While Cinco de Mayo
has been celebrated nationally for over a century, many may not know that
the tradition started right here in California by Mexican Americans 160
years ago. | Herald Examiner Collection / Los Angeles Public Library
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