The Chicano Movement 1960s

The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, which fought for Mexican American Civil Right with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment. Chicano movement goals included many issues like restoration of land grants, improved education, farm workers' rights, and to voting and political rights. Generally, the Chicano Movement addressed negative cultural stereotypes of Mexicans. Chicano movement included many people from different culture to fight for their rights; it included Mexican-Americans, African Americans, Asian- Americans, Puerto Rican-Americans, and more; Mexican Americans demanded better education, working conditions, political empowerment, and social freedom.
One aspect of the Chicano movement emphasized the rights of workers by representing the concerns of mostly Filipino and Mexican field laborers in rural California. Labor leaders like César Chávez brought the harsh conditions of farm work to the public eyes in the 1960s. Chávez used the nonviolent tactics like strikes and boycotts practiced by leaders of previous and current Civil Rights movements, including Mahatma Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the South. In 1962 he established …show more content…
Chicanos act of speaking up about a problem that needed to be addressed was their first step to changing the status quo. Nowadays civil rights for many Chicanos are the same and laws like the equal opportunity for employment, which controls the discrimination of minorities from race, age, religion, or ethnicity. Standards for minimum wage and education have changed all over the United States as a result of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Chicanos in the schools is clearly seen and are now seeing a massive amount of young Chicanos graduating from a four year