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Mexican flag with the BLM flag. Mexican Americans in Atlanta joining #GeorgeFloydProtestspic.twitter.com/7722IE39T3

For historical perspective, this isn’t the first time black and Latino activists have come together to protest police violence. Here’s Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers and Chicano leader Reies Tijerina and Oakland’s Brown Berets at Defremery Park in West Oakland in 1968pic.twitter.com/lMlTQPDBPa

And for one historic perspective on black and Latino civil rights struggles, checkout my high school/undergraduate classmate @HistoryBrian’s book “Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas” #GeorgeFloydpic.twitter.com/Bn82ZFEsyj

Chicano leader Reies Lopes Tijerina and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were planning a Poor People’s March with united black and Latino activists in DC before King’s assassination. The march was also to focus on police violence #GeorgeFloydpic.twitter.com/I5cdyrokRv

Also unknown to most: Mexican American scholar and civil rights advocate George I Sanchez once received a letter from NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall about a California desegregation case Sanchez worked on. Marshall wanted some ideas for a case in Kansas #GeorgeFloydpic.twitter.com/HUncQRx1Hj

And let’s not forget the Plan de San Diego in 1915 — an attempt create a “Liberating Army of Races and Peoples” for Mexican Americans, African Americans and Japanese Americans in Texas. Goal: create black republic in South, return Native lands http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=3692 …pic.twitter.com/Bkfv81c2wT