Mexican Civil Rights Movement Summary

I. Summary It starts off in 1960, when a Mexican movement is created in response to anger and frustration. In California and Texas they urged better human treatment in the fields and in New Mexico fought to reclaim once owned land. They soon realized that without political power they would remain second class citizens. So they began a Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. They eventually accomplished there movement through the Raza Unida power. Poll Taxes and literacy and the incapability to speak English kept Mexicans Americans from voting. In 1823, Texas rangers were created who often hung Mexicans by the neck. Law enforcement was known as private police for white farmers. League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was another organization that broke down discriminating barriers and eventually became a social club because they didn’t want to compromise their dignity. In 1940, men returned to home from WWII to realize and see discrimination everywhere, which led to the GI forum. What also led to the GI …show more content…
They both embody a group atmosphere in resolving an issue that the majority of people are in desperate need to resolve. We see this on a daily basis as people gather to defend or fix an issue. They ended up being successful just like the SNCC and the civil rights movement to vote. All of these issues occurring in and around the same time of each other but two totally different demographic areas. One highly populated by the African American population and one highly populated by Mexican American population located in South Texas. Overall, it relates back to a lot of material that has been studied throughout the semester from the discussion on Irish and their arrival to the United States and of course African Americans and their