Cesar Chavez
The Chicano
César Chávez and his efforts organized farm workers
in the central valley of California. It delineates the
various components of Chávez's strategy for farm
worker self determination—strikes, boycotts,
pilgrimages, fasts—and emphasizes his commitment
to nonviolence and the importance of faith and
prayer in achieving his goal. (Bender 6)
Reies Lopez Tijerina
Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement
in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. Tijerina's tryied to
convince the federal government to honor the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) galvanized
Mexicans and Mexican Americans across the
Southwest. (Ferreira 18)
History of the Movement
The Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s
provides a window into the construction of race in Movement
the United States. Never a unified entity, the
Chicano insurgency was instead a series of events Abel A. Solano
and actions waged by organizations that
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usedictltural nationalism and Marxist-Leninist ideas
to press their demands. Among these organizations Date : March 25, 2018
were the Brown Berets, the National Chicano
Moratorium Committee, the Crusade for Justice, the
Movimiento Estudiantíl Chicano de Aztlán
(MEChA), La Raza Unida Party (LRUP), and the
Centro de Acción Social Autónomo (Autonomous
Center for Social Action, commonly known as
CASA). They all used the common anti-American
political language of Chicanismo, which gave them
the semblance of a mutual identity and experience.
Another notion that the groups shared was the idea
that Chicanos were an internal colony of the United
States. (Chavez 369)
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