A Chicano Heritage Month? Yes and here's why, this legislator says

As a child growing up in California, Rep. Lou Correa watched as his Mexican American neighbors returned from having served in the Vietnam War and still had to fight against discrimination, poverty and segregation. That period crystallized his identity as a Chicano, a term for Mexican Americans…

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