• Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998?

Facts on topics related to Estela Ruiz

Chicano

• Moctesuma Esparza is a Chicano filmmaker who produced the movie Selena?
• Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
• the East Los Angeles community arts center Self Help Graphics & Art has been producing Chicano art for more than thirty years?
• the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction?

Mexican American

• Chicanismo is a cultural movement by Mexican Americans to recapture their Mexican, Native American culture, which began in the 1930s in the Southwestern United States?
• Sal Castro was the teacher that inspired Mexican American students to protest unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District schools, resulting in the 1968 East L.A. walkouts?
• Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?