This digital history project examines the Southern Plains portion of the Chicana/o Civil Rights Movement over time and space through an interactive map and timeline. The project is meant for public and scholarly use. The interactive map and timeline highlight the most important points of the region’s Chicana/o Movement. The geographic points and accompanying images have been found through research in various archives, extensive oral history fieldwork, along with the mining of newspaper and secondary sources. As a digital history project that will continually grow, the interactive map and timeline do not contain all sites of Chicana/o protest or organizing in the Southern Plains. As research on the plains’ Chicana/o Movement matures, this project will also grow. Because of the dearth of archival materials and scholarship on the region’s civil rights movements, some dates are not exact beyond a specific year and month.

Also included is a description of the Southern Plains, a vast region that stretches from central Texas and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands of far west Texas to southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas. The Resources section connects visitors to outside oral history, archival, and multimedia projects. This section also includes a bibliography of scholarship on the Chicana/o Movement and another bibliography of works on the Southern Plains’ Chicana/o Movement.