CHICANO MOVEMENT

Chicano Movement

• The Chicano Movement was a civil rights movement that was started in the 1960's. What the Chicano Movement was trying to do was to achieve mexican-american empowerment. This also is what influenced them to start this movement during The Mexican-American civil rights movement.

Brown Berets

• They are a pro-Chicano Organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement founded by David Sanchez and remains active to the present day. The group was seen as part of the Third Movement for Liberation.

Cesar Chavez (A)

• Chavez was Union leader and labor organizer who was born on March 31, 1927, near Yuma,Arizona. Chavez dedicated his life to improving the treatment, pay and working conditions for farm workers. He helped a lot because he knew what the farmers went through.

Gloria E. Anzaluda (A)

• Feminist Gloria Anzaluda was a guiding force in the Chicano and Chicana movement and lesbian/queer theory. She was a poet, activist, theorist, and teacher who lived from September 26, 1942, to May 15, 2004.

Connection from back then to now-

• The Chicano movement has created new awareness of farm workers, increased labor activism, and growing visibility of educational and community needs. According to "The Journal of Multi Media History, the Chicano Movement galvanized and trained a new generation of activists and leaders.