Latinos' Struggle for Social Justice in the 1960s

1. Warm Up 3/24 • In your journal define Push and Pull factors. • What are your pull factors for the city that you chose to live in yesterday? • What are your push factors that make you want to leave Magnolia?

2. Learning Target: We will learn about immigration and migration within the Latin-American culture, challenges they faced once they got to the US, and how they fought for a better life. • Success Criteria: I will watch videos on various issues Latinos faced when migrating to the US and answer questions related to the videos.

3. More than 900,000 Latinos lived in the United States in 1960. A Latino is any person of Latin American descent. One-third of Mexican American families lived below the poverty line and twice as many Mexican Americans as white Americans were unemployed. Latinos faced discrimination in education. Schools had less qualified teachers, fewer resources, and shabbier facilities. Few teachers were able to speak Spanish. In politics Latinos had far less power than the size of their population warranted. Electoral district boundaries kept Latino votes scattered. The number of Latinos in political office was very small. Latinos were often excluded from serving on juries. Latinos in the Early 1960s

4. Latinos’ Struggle for Social Justice • Latinos sought social justice—the fair distribution of advantages and disadvantages in society. Social Justice • Migrant agricultural workers, many of whom were Latino, received low wages for backbreaking labor. • In 1965 Filipino farmworkers went on strike in Delano, California. The National Farm Workers Association soon joined them. Delano Grape Strike • He co-founded the National Farm Workers Association—a union of Mexican American farmworkers. • His leadership inspired many Mexican Americans to fight discrimination in their lives. César Chávez

5. Chicano Movement A shortened form of mexicanos Wanted to convey ethnic pride and commitment to political activism Reies López Tijerina was an early Chicano leader who formed the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants). Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, another leading figure in the Chicano movement, founded the Crusade for Justice. A group of college students in Texas formed the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO). José Angel Gutiérrez founded La Raza Unida Party (RUP). Working-class Chicano students in Los Angeles formed the Brown Berets, one of the most militant organizations in the Chicano movement. The Movement for Latino Rights

6. Analyze Videos • You will watch a couple of videos • Each video you will break down what is happening and what goal the people are trying to accomplish

7. Exit Ticket • The Main Idea • Create a story about the 1960s Latinos struggled to achieve social justice. You should answer the following questions in your story. You will need to write half a page or more. • Answer the following questions. • What were the lives of Latinos like in the early 1960s? • What event launched Latinos’ struggle for social justice? • What were the main goals of the movements for Latino rights?