Chicano civil Rights Movement

1. Chicano civil Rights Movement

2. Included descendents of Mexicans living in territories ceded to US Mexican-American wave of immigration during the revolution in 1910s Bracero, or temporary workers, in US in 1940s and 1950s Immigration for economic opportunities and political openess Mexican-Americans

3. Farm workers had no labor protections Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta form the National Farm Workers Association 1962 Non-violence, boycott, and fasting as strategies Caesar Chavez and the Farm Workers

4. Cesar Chavez, The Organizer’s Tale I thought it would take ten years before we got that first contract. I wanted desperately to get some color into the movement, to give people something they could identify with, like flag. I was reading some books about how various leaders discovered what colors contrasted and stood out the best. The Egyptians had found that a red field with a white circle and a Black emblem in the center crashed into your eyes like nothing else. I wanted to use the Aztec eagle in the center, a on the Mexican flag. So I told my cousin Manuel, “Draw an Aztec Eagle.” Manuel had a little trouble with it, so we modified it to make it easier for people to draw. Symbols of unity and protest

5. “brown power” and Brown Berets School walkouts 1968 Congress passed Bilingual Education Act Election of Hispanic representatives to state and national government Struggles for social justice Political activism of Chicanos

6. Mythical homeland Images of Indians and Mestizos Posters as mass produced representations of identity Boycotts Creation of community and public spaces Identity of Azlan