CHICANO 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chicano Movement, Dolores Huerta, Saul Alinsky
15 May 2016
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Socio-economic and political statistics for mexican americans in the 1960 were abysmal (vargas, 306) The median income of a mexican american family was 62% of the general population. 1/3 of mexican american families lived below the federal poverty line (,000/year) 4/5 were concentrated in unskilled or semiskilled jobs; 1/3 employed of this number employed in agriculture. In 1968, there was only 1 mexican american in the senate and 3 in the. No mexican americans served in the ca state legislature: the chicano movement. Developed as a response to this socio-economic and political inequality. Women"s rights: cesar e. chavez: the farmworker"s movement of the 1960"s and 70"s. Cesar e. chavez: ucla department of chicana/o studies named after. Preeminent leader, voice, and public face of chicano civil rights movement of 1960"s. Was to chicanas/os what mlk was for black civil rights. Family farm in yuma valley acquired as part of homestead act in early.
