During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the African American communities were trying to make peaceful demonstrations and bring awareness about the injustices they were enduring in their daily lives. The civil right marches were a way to come together as a community, to protest peacefully, to change the laws about equality, discrimination, and segregation. During the demonstrations, there were times violence would break out, then rioting would ensue which caused many injuries and many of the activists were killed due to police brutality. The Latino movement was not as violent nor did it result with as many deaths as that of the African American civil rights movement, but the Latino movement was also fighting for the same rights that African Americans were fighting for and was indirectly influenced by the African American movement.
One of the major differences between the Latino and African American civil rights movement is the lack of representation of high profile advocates. The Latino movement did not have a concrete and defined movement, whereas the African American movement had Martin Luther King Jr., were more organized and had larger support from the communities. The Latino movement was mostly concentrated in the west coast of the United States, there were movements in the east coast, but it was mostly …show more content…
Both groups had to endure the stereotypes of being called, lazy, dirty and criminals. They were both forced to work as agricultural laborers, they were discriminated at the work place, they were confined to low level and low paying jobs and both groups made up the working poor. Latinos benefited from many of the land mark court cases that were being filed by the different African American groups to the supreme
One of the major differences between the Latino and African American civil rights movement is the lack of representation of high profile advocates. The Latino movement did not have a concrete and defined movement, whereas the African American movement had Martin Luther King Jr., were more organized and had larger support from the communities. The Latino movement was mostly concentrated in the west coast of the United States, there were movements in the east coast, but it was mostly …show more content…
Both groups had to endure the stereotypes of being called, lazy, dirty and criminals. They were both forced to work as agricultural laborers, they were discriminated at the work place, they were confined to low level and low paying jobs and both groups made up the working poor. Latinos benefited from many of the land mark court cases that were being filed by the different African American groups to the supreme