Evolution and Impact of the Chicano Student Movement

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The Chicano Student Movement East Los Angeles, and brought awareness of the problems faced by barrio residents who supported the United Farm Worker’s struggle for union recognition, and better working conditions, and some examples were the land grant movement in New Mexico, school walkouts in East Los Angeles, the march of the first Rainbow Coalition of the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C, and a contingent of Brown Berets were present at the Chicano Youth Liberation in Denver also, where El Plan Espiritual de Azlan was written and the Berets organization, the first Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War that led to the National Chicano War Moratorium march and rally in East Los Angeles, with their main emphasis on Chicano nationalism,
MAYO helped voter registration among the city’s Mexican Americans. Mexican American student movement grew as dozens of organizations appeared throughout the schools that were K-12 and colleges and Universities and important thing was that teachers and administrators learned to band
In April, 1969, students gathered to discuss problems and potential projects of their movement. Mexican American studies were focused primarily on community control of schools, secure recruitment programs, financial aid, and student support services. Chicano arts and items of traditional and cultural belief were given out with invitations at college campus that included debates over staying together or separating and this was during prevalent idealogical orientations. Mexican American student racialism started with liberation struggles and study groups in which they came up with propaganda and political texts. Dozens of Mexican Americans fled the states since they didn't see eye to eye with most and were in Cuba by late 69’ chopping sugar cane. The Chicano movement in America should have looked 90 miles south of Miami, Florida for inspiration. Later student members of the organization thought to themselves elaborate theories concerning everything they stood against. The reality of Chicanos became a matter of judgement and perspective which led to discussions and that conflicts arose on the course of the Chicano movement. In the end they accepted the facts which was the concept of self determination that

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