Xitlaly Reyes Professor Warner HIS 106 25 Sept. 2014 Viva La Raza The Chicano movement, also known by Chicanos as El Movimiento, was a cultural and political movement that raised awareness of the history of Mexicans and/or Chicanos in North America (Ramirez). Not a lot of races are considered of having a discrimination issue the main race that is known to have such a problem is the African Americans. Throughout the Chicano Movement it is seen as the joining of other races that include Filipinos. By delving into the Chicano Movement, important lessons about humanity can be discovered; this movement reveals determination plays a powerful role in fighting for equality. The Civil Rights Movement not only included African Americans but also …show more content…
Both associations later came together and formed the United Farm Workers which is still around and currently attempting to recognize a day of service in memory of Cesar Chavez. A couple of strategies Chavez would use to draw attention to the farmer’s rights included: boycotts, strikes and marches. Chavez was also similar to Martin Luther King Jr. in the way of supporting nonviolent strikes and believing nonviolence was more powerful than violence …show more content…
The treaty ceded Mexican lands to the United States and ensured that landowning Mexicans would keep their preexisting property rights in the lands transferred (Ramirez). However, once Mexicans tried to reclaim the land they once owned the United States did not allow it to happen resulting in many Mexicans losing their land because they could not provide documentation stating ownership of the land. When they failed to secure these lost lands, the Chicanos of the 1960’s and 1970’s reclaimed Aztlán, the ancestral homeland of an indigenous group from Mexico, the Nahua