AMST 101gmw Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: United Farm Workers, Chicano Movement, Chicano Moratorium

• School: USC
• Department: American Studies and Ethnicity
• Course: AMST 101gmw
• Professor: Chavez Alicia

Document Summary

Have we progressed past the race problems: affirmative action federal policy that. Police brutality: so the police officers were very few in terms of the people living in the city. La black freedom struggle: with the help of the local naacp, desegregated the la fire dept, through grass roots organizing , made successful demands to force countless banks, stores to hire them. Chicano movement: ufw grape strike 1965, east la blowouts 1968, chicano moratorium 1970, aztlan mythic homeland of the aztecs.