Sixties Latinx Radicals Took Over A Church!!! A What?? A Church!!!
In the late 1960s, the urban crisis wreaked havoc and destruction on poor and working-class families in American cities. Against this backdrop, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting religious services to compel faith communities to join their protests against urban renewal, poverty, police brutality, and racism. Apostles of Change tells the story of these occupations and articulates the radicals' bold, new vision for the church and the world. With stories from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Houston, Felipe Hinojosa reveals how Latino freedom movements frequently crossed boundaries between faith and politics and argues that understanding the history of these radical movements is essential to understanding the dynamic changes in Latino religious politics from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.