The one group I would like to focus on is the Mexican American groups and some of the progress they were able to make during the 1970s and 1980s. Cesar Chavez led the charge for farm workers after experiencing the life of a farm worker. Chávez created and combined farmer unions and fought for compensation rights and working conditions. Cesar Chavez would lead non-violent strikes and marches to bring attention to what really was going on. After some time all of his hard work paid off and brought success to him and other farm workers. Cesar Chavez help Mexicans and Chicano’s make progress in economic rights for themselves. “Believing that the only permanent solution to the problems of farm workers lay in legislation, Chavez supported the passage …show more content…
People were taking upon themselves to keep the Mexicans out of California. The Kennedy administration played a great role in making California a more divers and colored state. This also opened the door to legal immigration Starr writes, “California in short, had become a significantly- and legally- Mexican American society, with Los Angeles as the third largest Mexican city in the world and Mexican American active in every phase and level of California life” (Pg.311). This opened the door to many possibilities for Mexican’s. Besides being legal they were able to make political progress in 1972 and 1975 when Hispanics and Latinos pushed for voting rights due to the fact they wanted an equal opportunity to vote and have a say so of what was going on in the world they too lived