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Included descendents of Mexicans living in territories ceded to US Mexican-American wave of immigration during the revolution in 1910s Bracero, or temporary workers, in US in 1940s and 1950s Immigration for economic opportunities and political openess
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Farm workers had no labor protections Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta form the National Farm Workers Association 1962 Non-violence, boycott, and fasting as strategies
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Cesar Chavez, The Organizer’s Tale I thought it would take ten years before we got that first contract. I wanted desperately to get some color into the movement, to give people something they could identify with, like flag. I was reading some books about how various leaders discovered what colors contrasted and stood out the best. The Egyptians had found that a red field with a white circle and a Black emblem in the center crashed into your eyes like nothing else. I wanted to use the Aztec eagle in the center, a on the Mexican flag. So I told my cousin Manuel, “Draw an Aztec Eagle.” Manuel had a little trouble with it, so we modified it to make it easier for people to draw.
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“brown power” and Brown Berets School walkouts 1968 Congress passed Bilingual Education Act Election of Hispanic representatives to state and national government Struggles for social justice
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Mythical homeland Images of Indians and Mestizos Posters as mass produced representations of identity Boycotts Creation of community and public spaces
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