On this day, 11 October 1972, Chicano activists occupied the abandoned Beacon Hill School in Seattle and founded El Centro de la Raza (Center of the People) a Chicanx/Latinx civil rights community organisation. It still exists today.
Pictured: a local official meets with the occupiers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1232649210253560/?type=3