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By Trent Soobitsky & Kyle Everett
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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 1962. 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
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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
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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
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The Chicano movement took place throughout the 1960s. Cuándo
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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
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