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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
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
Cesar Chavez, The Organizer’s TaleI 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.
“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