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**The Chicano Movement**



** What was the Chicano Movement? **
The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the //Chicano Civil Rights Movement//, is an extension of the //Mexican American Civil Rights Movement// which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.The Chicano Movement emerged during the Civil Rights era with three main goals: restoral of land, rights for farm workers and to education reforms.The Chicano Movement also addressed discrimination in public and private institutions among many things. The Chicano Movement has created our future in which we have the right to speak any language we want and we wont be punished. There have been incredible outcomes of the Chicano Movement we have had great leaders which is the main focus of my project.

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 * In the following video its a Part 1 of what was the start of The Chicano Movement.//( Feel free to watch the rest of the videos)//**

Important People in The Chicano Movement
- **Throught the Chicano Movement there were many people involved, below there are some of the leaders that made a big impact on the main goals that the chicano movement had like the demand for farmers rights and an education reform**. =Dolores Huerta =

Dolores Huerta to this day has been one of the most influential women in Chicano History. She is an activist, labor leader. Born Dolores Fernández on April 10, 1930, in Dawson, New Mexico. Huerta grew up in Stockton, California, which was in the San Joaquin Valley, an area filled with farms. She went to college, then worked as an elementary school teacher. Huerta saw that many of her students where childen farm workers, that lived in poverty without being able to have the simple nessecities. to help, she became the founder of the Stockton Chapter of the Commuunity Services Organization. This organization has worked to improve socian and economic conditions for farm workers and also to fight descrimination. Throught the 1960s huerta created the Agriculture Worker Association, this organization dealt with many issues. Then she became co-founder with Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Worker the two became a good team when fighting for farmers rights. Huerta continues to be a great role model attending highschools and colleges inspiring many students chanting one of Cesar Chavez famous chant " Si Se Puede". Huerta had been an inspirational women, she has been honored for being an activist. she has received the Ellis Island Medal of Freedom award in 1993, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award in 1999 and was inducted to the National Women Hall of Fame in 1993.

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=Cesar Chavez  = -Cesar Chavez was Labor Organizer and a Union Leader. Chavez dedicated his whole life trying to improve the treatment and pay and working conditions for farm workers. After working as a labor and community organizer in the 1950s. Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. the union then joined Dolores Huertas organization which then they were co-founders of the United Farm Workers in 1972 which was a merge of both organizations.In 1968 Chavez organized the national boycott of California grape growers. This boycott was successful because it improved the conpensation and labor conditions. At the end the union won several victories for the workers. As a labor leader, Chavez actions were always nonviolent. He led marches called bcycotts and also went on several hunger strikes. He also brought the issue of the danger of pesticide to workers health. Chavez was a big part of the Chicano Movement because he stood up for the rights of the farm workers.

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==Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez == -Rodolfo "Corky " Gonzales was a Mexican American boxer, a political activist. he was the first ever to have a Chicano Youth Conference. In March 1969, the participants of the Youth Conference were future activist and artist. the conference also presented the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, a written statement demanding self-determination for Chicanos. As an early figure of the movement for the equal rights of Mexican Americans, he is also considered on of the founders of the Chicano Movement. Corky Gonzales is also famous for his poem " I am Jouquin". ==media type="youtube" key="rW-fl3jkG48?fs=1" height="268" width="448"  media type="youtube" key="Fpm6wHLGIYU?fs=1" height="268" width="336" == Videos one: A student performing the famous poem of Rodolfo Corky Gonzales " I am Joaquin" two: A little back ground of Corky Gonzales. =** Sal Castro **  =

- Salvador B. Castro (born October 25, 1933) is an American educator and activist.while being an educator he noticed all the discrimination that chicano faced like not being able to speak spanish during class. Sal was opposed to this rule and allowed his students to used spanish, this was the result of his transfer to Lincoln High School in Lincoln Heights, East Los Angeles. The result of the network was the holding of Chicano Youth Leadership Conferences (CYLC), training grounds for student activists, the first of which was held in 1963. At conferences, students discussed inequalities between schools within the LAUSD, the need for bilingual and culturally-relevant education, and the need for systemic reforms that would place students on the track to higher education. As Castro helped students make demands of the school board, underground newspapers floated the idea of a boycott of East L.A. schools. When district officials ignored the students' demands, calls for a boycott grew stronger. In March 1968, students from Wilson High School walked out after the school principal cancelled a performance of the Neil Simon play Barefoot in the Park. The next day, another walkout was staged in protest of a school policy prohibiting male students from wearing their hair long.Following the small walkouts, students from the five public schools in East Los Angeles (Roosevelt, Wilson, Lincoln, Garfield, and Belmont), with the aid of local Chicano college students, coordinated unified protests.As you have read this might sound familiar because we had the opportunity to watch Walkout which was the film that talked about the fight for chicano rights. Sal Castro is important in the Chicano Movement because he was the one who with the help of students created a movement towards the rights for Chicano education.