Celia Cruz during rehearsal for the third annual Latin GRAMMY Awards ceremony at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, 2002.

Sheriff's deputies form a line across street at Garfield High School during a Chicano student demonstration on March 5, 1968. Similar confrontations occurred at other schools.

<p>Antonio Mejías-Rentas is a longtime journalist based in Los Angeles. He tweets @lataino.&nbsp;</p>


Antonio Mejías-Rentas

Antonio Mejías-Rentas is a longtime journalist based in Los Angeles. He tweets @lataino.&nbsp;

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<p>The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history, marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap."</p>


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