The Chicano Rights

Movement
( EL Movimiento)
Brisa, Randy, Maybelline, Evelyn
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 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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