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    The Chicano Rights Movement emerged in the 1960s-1970s to fight for equal treatment and rights for Mexican Americans, led by figures like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta who organized strikes and boycotts to advocate for farm workers rights and end discrimination. Key goals included restoring land, improving working conditions, increasing representation and fighting oppression through methods such as protests, walkouts, and newspapers. The movement accomplished raising awareness of issues facing the Mexican American community and creating lasting impacts like bilingual programs and more Hispanic elected officials.

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    The Chicano Rights Movement emerged in the 1960s-1970s to fight for equal treatment and rights for Mexican Americans, led by figures like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta who organized strikes and boycotts to advocate for farm workers rights and end discrimination. Key goals included restoring land, improving working conditions, increasing representation and fighting oppression through methods such as protests, walkouts, and newspapers. The movement accomplished raising awareness of issues facing the Mexican American community and creating lasting impacts like bilingual programs and more Hispanic elected officials.

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    The Chicano Rights Movement emerged in the 1960s-1970s to fight for equal treatment and rights for Mexican Americans, led by figures like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta who organized strikes and boycotts to advocate for farm workers rights and end discrimination. Key goals included restoring land, improving working conditions, increasing representation and fighting oppression through methods such as protests, walkouts, and newspapers. The movement accomplished raising awareness of issues facing the Mexican American community and creating lasting impacts like bilingual programs and more Hispanic elected officials.

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    The Chicano Rights

    Movement
    ( EL Movimiento)
    Brisa, Randy, Maybelline, Evelyn
    Warm Up
    What do you know about the chicano rights movement or are you
    familiar with it?
    The Chicano Rights Movement Background :
    ● The Chicano Movement was the largest and most widespread civil rights
    and empowerment movement by Mexican-Americans.
    ● *This movement descended originally from the end of The Bracero
    Program in which Mexicans farmers worked in horrible conditions. Both
    César Chávez and Dolores Huerta fought to end the Bracero Program, this
    contributing to the opportunity to fight for Mexican Americans rights.
    ● Key years for this movement happened between 1960’s and 1970’s.
    ● The Chicano Movement emerged as well from the Civil RIghts Movement:
    This movement forced the U.S to start focusing in other oppressed groups.
    Important figures during this movement : Cesar Chavez

    ● Lived through discrimination, and had a tough


    childhood.
    ● Cesar, along with Dolores Huerta led the first
    successful farm workers union in American history,
    this giving way to the fight for Mexican Americans
    rights, the chicano movement.
    ● It should be noted that all their protests were
    civilized, their main goal was to advocate and fight
    for their rights but in a civilized way.
    Important figures during this movement : Dolores Huerta
    ● She helped organize the five-year Delano grape
    strike, she also directed the successful national
    grape boycotts that, in 1970, forced California
    growers to pay higher wages and offer better
    working conditions to farm workers.

    ● Both Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded


    the national farm workers association to improve
    wages and working conditions

    ● Discrimination also helped shape Dolores


    Huerta
    Why did the Chicano Movement start and what was the
    purpose of it?
    - Restoral of land
    - Farm worker rights
    - There wasn't enough of representation
    - Oppression(An unjust treatment or exercise of power, often disguised as government authority
    or cultural disapproval/ discrimination)
    - Classism( social class discrimination )
    - Racism
    - Education reforms
    - Fighting for freedom and liberty
    What The Movement Looked like/ methods

    Strikes
    Protests Walkouts

    Newspaper
    (la raza)

    Boycotts
    What It Accomplished
    1. Rise awareness of the unequal treatment and racism experienced by Mexican American students.
    2. The walkouts led to the creation of new courses and programs that focused on Chicano culture and history.
    3. The Chicano walkouts also led to changes in school policy, such as the hiring of more Chicano teachers and
    counselors, and the development of bilingual education programs.
    Overall, the Chicano walkouts helped to bring attention to the issues of Mexican American students and led to
    important changes in the educational system.
    Education (walkouts)
    - Schools had large populations of latinos,mexicans, mexican
    americans
    - Teachers were ignorant of chicano history and culture and did not
    bother to learn and insisted a change for the non representation
    chicanos received
    - In East Los Angeles during the late 1960s and 1970s, a group of young
    activists used newspaper as a way to organize meetings for walkouts -
    - More than 10,000 students walked out of their classrooms (1968,
    March 5th)
    - Police were then involved and used violence against the students and
    thirteen people were arrested
    How the Chicano Movement impact in society and
    futures generations?
    ● The creation of many bilingual and
    bicultural programs in the southwest
    ● Improved conditions for migrant
    workers
    ● The hiring of more Chicano teachers
    ● More Mexican Americans serving as
    elected officials
    Hispanic enrollment reaches new high at
    four-year colleges in the U.S.
    Summarize: The Chicano Rights Movement
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