Forgotten Alliance: Jews, Chicanos, and the Dynamics of Class and Race in Denver, Colorado, 1967-1971

This is a narrative history of a short-lived, local Latino reform and cultural initiative, Denver's Centro Cultural, which developed with the support of the American Jewish Committee affiliate in that city. It unfolds within the late 1960s heyday of Black and Brown Power nationally, and in the Denver of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's militant Crusade for Justice. The article tells the story of the personalities, and tensions, instrumental in the rise and fall of Centro Cultural. It further opens out onto much broader issues concerning Jewish-Latino relations, and the differing but overlapping trajectories of revolutionary late '60s nationalist movements and ones premised on cultural nationalism and relative moderation.