Chronological Order Chicano Movement (Midterm Review)

Delano Farm Strike (1965)

• Strikes: 

  • To gain rights for workers 

  • Better working conditions

  • Better salaries 

  • No child labor 

• Striked for 6 months before the Pilgrimage 

  • Because they started protesting in the spring when they needed workers the most 

The farm workers union 

Obstacles: 

Bacero Program (cheaper labor from Mexico) 

(Strike breakers, treated like slaves, could not join the union) 

Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez opposed the Bracero program and were able to stop it in 1964 

What did we learned from Luis Valdez

• Worked with Cesar and Delores 

• Added theatre to the notion of activism 

LA School Walkouts (1968)

• Sal Castro, teacher, helped lead a walkout

• Goal was to increase graduation rate, and expand curriculum to include Mexican-American History

• More teachers and administrators who understood and appreciated the culture of Latinos 

• 10,000 students walked out for 2 consecutive weeks and up to six months 

Sense of Pride 

• Chicano→Mexica→Mexicano→Chicano 

• Civil Rights Movements for all 

Mass Protest Against the Vietnam War (1970)

• 1970

• On August 29 1970, 30,000 Chicanos demonstrated peacefully to end the war in Vietnam 

• They were confronted by police and 3 people died 

  • La Raza Unida lost its power then 

Light up the Bored Protest (1990)

• The protest, the counterprotest, and the cat-and-mouse game that continued unabated in the background emphasized what the demonstrators along Dairy Mart Road said was the failure of the United States Government to bring this often lawless border under control.

• We're lighting up the border, basically, to try to light up Washington,'' said Rodger Hedgecock, a radio talk-show host who has become the voice of the protests. ''We've got a hypocritcal law - quotas, bureaucrats, forms - and everyone just ignores it. And everyone knows that they ignore it.''

• It was on the opposite side of Dairy Mart Road that the organized anger could be felt, as members of immigrants-rights groups with loudspeakers chanted and raised banners reading: ''No Apartheid on the Border'' and ''End Racism Now.''

Las Patronas (1995-Present)

• The Mexican women who feed Immigrants 

• We realized that we could help them with food, health, and the law 

• We are going backward with human rights. We work with migrants to give them back their human dignity 

National Human Rights Award, 2013 

• To Norma Romero Velázquez 

• For her work with migrants since 1995