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By Trent Soobitsky & Kyle Everett

  Cesar Chavez was one of the major leaders of the Chicano movement. He starved himself for 25 days in protest of the Californian grape growers.  Edward R. Roybal was a Mexican-American congressman who ran in He was a strong supporter of the Chicano Movement and convinced more Mexicans to vote.  Salvador Castro was a teacher in L.A. and became frustrated by the lack of Mexican-American administrators in the school systems and felt that the teachers weren't treating the minority children fairly. Quien

  The Chicano Movement was a Mexican- American civil rights movement that took place in the 1960s.  The name Chicano came from the name of the Mexican immigrant children.  The movement also involved farmworkers and other low paying labor jobs. Qué

  The Chicano Movement took place in the American South-West.  Large events happened throughout California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.  Student Walkouts took place all around the country. Donde

  The Chicano movement took place throughout the 1960s. Cuándo

  The Mexican American people felt that they didn’t belong anywhere and weren't being treated fairly.  This grew to a lower class movement, where farm workers, and other jobs with low pay, decided to take a stand against mistreatment. Por Qué