Martín Serna

Martín Porferio "Marty" Serna (November 19, 1944 – November 12, 1978) was an early organizer of the Chicano Movement, who was one of the founders of the Brown Berets in Pueblo, Colorado. He was part of the La Raza Unida political party, and developed several community organizations in Pueblo including the Black/Brown Berets, United Farmworkers Organization, Escuela Huitzhualopán, Southern Colorado Chicano Planning Council, and El Partido de la Raza Unida.

He had Indigenous and mestizo background, and taught his son about Huitzilopochtli and Nahuatl ways.

He served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper, and in 1965 received an early discharge to support victims of a major flood in the Eastside floodplain. He then became a principal organizer in the preservation for the community on the eastside.

Serna ran for Congress in Colorado's 3rd district on the Raza Unida ticket in 1970.

In 1971, he organized the La Raza Unida party convention featuring 600 delegates from 12 states.

In 1970, he organized students at SCSC to remove Coors beer from the school pub.

His name for the Pueblo Eastside community center, El Centro del Quinto Sol, has remained.