The Chicano Movement

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The Chicano Movement
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Chicano

• A Mexican American
• A term of ethnic pride
• Developed out of the Hispanic Civil Rights
  Movement.

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Chicano Movement

• Focused on 3 main Points
• Farm Workers
• Educational Rights
• Voting and Political Rights

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United Farm Workers

• During the 1940s and 1950s landowners in the
  West, especially California exploited their
  workers.
• The U.S. had allowed Mexicans to work in the U.S.
  during WWII. However, after the war employers
  were suppose to give preference to U.S. citizens.

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THINK-PAIR-SHARE

• THINK What are 2 ways that the employers may
  have exploited the Mexican workers?
• PAIR with someone close to you
• SHARE what you came up with

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United Farm Workers

• Most employers continued to use Mexican workers,
  because they could pay them very low wages, make
  them work long hours without a break, and
  mistreat them. They were also denied the ability
  to become citizens.

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United Farm Workers
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United Farm Workers

• Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta joined their two
  organizations to create the United Farm Workers.
• The goal was to unionize for better wages,
  working conditions, benefits.

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United Farm Workers

• The group staged peaceful protests and boycotts.
• They organized workers which forced the employers
  to meet their demands.
• Filipinos also joined the workers.

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United Farm Workers

• Benefits
• Specific Hours and Pay
• Toilets and Water in fields
• Pension after retirement
• Protective gear against pesticides
• Amnesty for workers brought illegally.

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Educational Rights

• Issues in education
• Hispanic students were often placed in segregated
  schools.
• Unfair practices against Hispanic students
• College and University students worked with
  African Americans to established rights for both.

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The Brown Berets and Black Panthers met in
the1970s.
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Educational Rights

• Groups such as the Brown Berets and MAYO all
  formed to help fight for the rights of students.
• Students led Walkouts, Protests, and sit-in
  through out the West Coast.

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Educational Improvements

• Introduction of Bi-lingual education in public
  schools.
• Integration of Hispanic students into White
  schools.
• Outlawed manual labor as a punishment.

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Educational Improvements

• Introduction of Black and Hispanic History
  classes on College Campuses.

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Voting and Political Rights

• Hispanic Americans were often segregated and
  persecuted as African Americans had been.
• La Raza Unida Political Party
• Fought for the rights of Hispanic Americans

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Voting and Political Rights

• 1975 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is extended
  to Hispanics.
• University of California v. Bakke
• Universities could not use Affirmative Action to
  limit Hispanics in Universities.