Pick up handouts (pink and yellow)

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Pick up handouts (pink and yellow)
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Mexican American Civil Rights
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Crystal City Walk-Out
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• On December 9, 1969, American students of Mexican
  ancestry walked out of class in response to the
  inadequate and antagonistic responses of the
  Anglo-controlled school board. Mexican-American
  and proposed remedies. Some of the educational
  issues were  Employ more Mexican-American
  teachers that would be more sensitive to
  Mexican-American students  Create a
  Mexican-American studies class  Homecoming
  Queen should be elected by the students and no
  one else  Change school board policy in
  regards to selecting the cheerleaders 
  Eliminate the Dual Sweetheart policy for the
  baseball team     Allow students to speak
  Spanish at school   Install Bilingual
  Education   Get rid of racist
  teachers   Student led elections for
  organizations and clubs, instead of teachers.

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• The walkout lasted until the federal government
• Civil Rights Commission mediated a compromise
• between the school board and the students. The
• duration of the walkout was two weeks.

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Cesar Chavez (1927-1993)

• Used non-violent methods
• Fought for the rights of migrant farm workers
• With his wife, Chavez taught Mexican immigrants
  to read and organized voter registration drives
• Co-Founded the National Farm Workers Association
• Used strikes and boycotts (lettuce and grapes) to
  gain rights for farm workers
• Led a nationwide boycott of grapes
• Name later changed to United Farm Workers
• Motto Si, se puede
• Was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  posthumously

https//www.youtube.com/watch?vawP3yXv-4ng
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Dolores Huerta (1930 -

• Worked to improve social and economic conditions
  of immigrant workers and fought to end
  discrimination
• Created the Agricultural Workers Association and
  co-founded the United Farm Workers
• Lobbied politicians on many issues
• Allowing migrant workers w/out U.S. Citizenship
  to receive public assistance and pensions and
  creating Spanish-language voting ballots and
  driver tests
• Received the Ellis Island Medal of Freedom Award
  and the Eleanor Roosevelt Award
• Also was inducted into the National Womens Hall
  of Fame
• Quote Walk the street with us into history. Get
  off the sidewalk

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Hector P. Garcia (1914-1996)

• Served in the Medical Corps during WWII
• Fought against discrimination of Mexican
  Americans
• Organized the American G.I. Forum to improve
  veteran benefits and give them better medical
  attention
• Soon expanded to address educational and
  vocational training, housing, public education,
  poll taxation, voter registration,
  hospitalization, and employment
• He was Awarded the American Medal of Freedom
• First Mexican Americans to receive this honor
• Motto Education is our freedom, and freedom is
  everybodys business

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League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

• Established in Corpus Christi, Texas
• Believes in assimilation
• Work to advance the economic condition,
  educational opportunities, political influence,
  and civil rights for
• Hispanics Americans

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La Raza Unida

• Started in Crystal City, Texas and spread to the
  Southwestern United States
• Centered on Chicano Nationalism
• Wanted better housing, work, and educational
  opportunities for Mexican Americans

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Mexican American Legal Defense Educational Fund
(MALDEF)

• Founded in San Antonio, Texas
• Brought important civil rights cases before the
  Supreme Court such as

• White v. Regester
• Edgewood ISD vs. Kirby
• Rodriguez v. San Antonio ISD

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• Still exists today
• The Five Battlefronts
• Educational
• Social
• Spiritual
• Economic
• Political