Essay On Chicano Movement

The Chicano movement is also known as the Chicano civil right movement or El Movimento. This movement was Mexican Americans uniting and fighting for equality and their civil rights. The movement was aiming to attaining empowerment and self-determination to put an end to racism and discrimination against the Mexican American community seeking to gain social equality. The movement criticized those who neglected laborers, students, and recent migrants because they were not American and were immigrant seeking to achieve the so called “American Dream”. The Chicano movement helped to embraced the culture and identity of Mexico. As the rise of leaders such as Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and many more arouse to the movement it initiated many legal

A leader of an urban youth movement that arouse was named Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales. Before become a public figure fighting for civil rights he was a professional boxer in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Gonzales was a very active figure in the democratic party, but later on he left it and founded La Crusada Para la Justicia known as the Crusade for Justice. Which was an organization that supported Chicano civil rights, education, and cultural awareness. Not only did he founded this organization but also was the authored of a poem/song titled “Yo Soy Joaquin.” This poem was, one of the most defining and excellent writings that was to come out of the Chicano movement. The following poem was voicing the conflicted nature of Chicano identity and a way that would inspired many to rise and unite to accomplish that one common goal we all have. Not only did he did this but was also the one that organized the First National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in 1969. With the first national Chicano youth liberation conference had one goal which was to be able to promote Chicano nationalism and a separatist Chicano political party. He was the main reason for many of the movement that were done such as the Colorado La Raza Unida Party and attempted to created various of groups to help and support the