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Ernesto B. Vigil. The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999), xii + 487pp. $60.00 (cloth).
Written by a former activist and leader of the Chicano militant movement, this is a probing account of that movement in Denver, Colorado during the 1960s. In a number of respects, this is Ernesto Vigil's own story as well as that of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, the founder of the movement the Crusade for Justice, to which Vigil belonged. If it's true of the 1960s that "you had to be there," this book reflects that dictum. Drawn on FBI reports, newspaper accounts, interviews, and many other sources, this is a blow-by-blow account of an insider's participation...