04 28 2015 History Reminders Online Quizzes SETE Final Exam Thursday May 14th 10 30a 12 30p Chicano Movement Farm workers rights Education issues o Bilingual o History Political empowerment League of United Latin American Citizens LULAC Formed in 1929 Corpus Christi TX More conservative group Lawsuits 1947 Mendez v Westminster orange county segregation of Mexican Americans education 1954 Hernandez v Texas designated Mexican Americans as this class so that way they could get the protection of the 14th amendment 1978 Madrigal v Quilligan forced sterilization of Mexican American women in Los Angeles county ruled in favor of the doctors that were sterilization of these women created rules about informed consent in there own language Began in 1942 Temporary workers from Mexico and Puerto Rico for agriculture jobs Ended in 1964 4 5 million workers Bracero Program G I Forum Formed in 1948 in Corpus Christi TX Dr Hector Garcia received the presidential award of freedom Address concerns of Mexican American veterans Felix Longoria Affair Farmworkers Cesar Chavez o Worked the fields until 1952 o Embraced nonviolent tactics hunger strikes o Best known Latino civil rights activist o Died 1993 Dolores Huerta o School Teacher o I couldn t tolerate seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children o Worked with Cesar Chavez more radical than he was United Farm Workers Established in 1962 Aided by end of Bracero Program National Grape Boycott 25 day hunger strike by Cesar Chavez Student Walk Outs March 1968 East Los Angeles 20 000 students Protesting injustices in the educational system o Not allowed to speak Spanish in class o Curriculum did not talk about Mexican American history or just ignored it o High school counselors were trying to get Mexican American students to do labor work instead of go to college Chicano Youth Brown Berets o Much more radical would take over buildings and parks and hold it and control it until change took place o Big Problems mainly interested in the educational issues and in some political movements and then also interested in police discrimination o More Militant Chicano Moratorium Anti Vietnam War demonstrations Led by Brown Berets LA protest results in death La Raza Unida United Race Crystal City Texas 1970s History Native American Movement Native Americans in WWII 04 28 2015 o 25 000 served 90 of men registered for draft o Navajo Code Talkers o Left reservations to work o Average income triple American Indian Movement AIM 1968 Minneapolis MN Help Indians in urban ghettos Occupation of Alcatraz Island November 20 1969 June 11 1971 Brought plight of Native Americans to national attention Indians of All Tribes IAT Trail of Broken Treaties 1972 March on Washington 20 point position paper Occupied the offices of Bureau of Indian affairs Wounded Knee 1973 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Armed standoff 71 days End of AIM Equality vs Equity Equality sameness Equity fairness 04 28 2015
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