1. The Chicano Movement

2. Civil Rights Movement Kennedy introduced Civil Rights Act, 1963
Civil Rights Protests in 800 cities
Political movement in Crystal City, TX
March on Washington, August 1963

3. Civil Rights Legislation
Kennedy Assassination, November 22, 1963
Civil Rights Act, July 1964
Outlaws discrimination in employment and public facilities
Voting Rights Act, August 1965
Outlaws poll tax
Provides regulation in regions where African Americans refused the ballot

4. “Great Society” Economic Opportunity Act, August 1964
Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO)
Service Employment Redevelopment (SER)
Education & training
Project Head Start
Little School of the 400
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5. Multifaceted Struggle
Labor rights for farm workers
Regaining stolen lands
Economic opportunity
Mobilization of political power
Educational Reform
Antiwar activism
Rights for women
Formation of an independent political party

6. United Farm Workers
Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta established NFWA in 1962
Alliance with Filipino farm workers
Larry Itliong
Farm worker strike against grape growers in Delano, CA in 1965
March to Sacramento, 1966
Grape boycott

7. United Farm Workers Strikes spread to Texas and Midwest, 1966
Luis Valdez & Teatro Campesino
Hunger Strike, 1968
By /3 of Califiornia grapes grown under contract with UFW
United Farm Workers

8. Reies Lopez Tijerina New Mexico Fundamentalist minister
1958 meeting with Elijah Mohammed
Federal Alliance of Land Grants, 1963

9. New Mexico Land Grants Movement
Based on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Call for restoration of individual land grants
Compensation for families whose lands had been seized illegally
Occupation of Kit Carson National Forest, October 1966
Courthouse raids, 1967
Tierra Amarilla
Rio Arriba County Courthouse
Joining forces with American Indian Movement (AIM)

10. Chicano Movement
My fathers have lost the economic battle  and won the struggle of cultural survival.  And now! I must choose between the paradox of  victory of the spirit, despite physical hunger,  or to exist in the grasp of American social neurosis,  sterilization of the soul and a full stomach. 
Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
Excerpt from “I am Joaquin”

11. “Corky” Gonzales Cultural nationalism Crusade for Justice, 1965
Chicano Youth Liberation Conference
Denver, 1969
Plan Espiritual de Atzlan

12. Student Walkouts What were the issues? East Los Angeles, 1968
15,000 High school students stage a protest
Sal Castro
Brown Berets

13. Chicano Student Movements
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Atzlan (MEChA)
Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), 1967
El Plan de Santa Barbara, 1969

14. El Plan de Santa Barbara

15. MAYO
Jose Angel Gutierrez
Crystal City, 1969
Confrontation with HISD

16. Chicano Students and the Courts
Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD
Ross v. Eckels
Houston
Huelga Schools

17. National Chicano War Moratorium
Los Angeles, 1970
Anti-war protest
Death or Ruben Salazar

18. Nixon & the Southern Strategy
Richard Nixon elected in 1968
Cabinet Committee on Spanish Speaking People
Promoted Nixon administration