Cinco De Mayo: Latinos for Social Justice During the Civil War

The commemoration of Cinco de Mayo was created by Latinos living in San Francisco during the American Civil War, to let the world know where Latinos stood on the issues of that great conflict:

• Latinos opposed slavery & supported freedom.
• Latinos opposed white supremacy and supported racial equality.
• Latinos opposed elite plantation rule, and supported a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

This presentation explains why the Battle of Puebla, fought in Mexico on the Cinco de Mayo, 1862, became the symbol for Latinos who supported Abraham Lincoln and the United States against the slave states of the South.