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A California court case that made the segregation of Hispanic children in public schools unconstitutional.
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A supreme court case that explicitly gave the 14th amendment protections to all racial ethnic groups.
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Many Mexican Americans vote for JKF to be elected as he is for equal rights.
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the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee is recognized as an independent organization by California
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The Political Association of Spanish-speaking Organizations (PASO) unites to take over the city council for 2 years in Crystal City, Texas.
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Led by Reies Tijerina, many Chicanos united to fight for ancestral land in the south-west of the US
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Apart of the Farm workers rights movements, grape pickers went on strike in California
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Rodolfo Acuña starts teaching the first Mexican American history class in Los Angeles, California.
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Reies López Tijerina was a firm believer that the land America gained from the Mexican-American war should belong to the Mexican American people as the land theirs ancestrally
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Two students from Yakima Valley College, travel to California to meet Cesar Chavez. The meeting spawns organizational efforts to unionize farm workers in Central Washington.
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Cesar Chavez lead the National Farm Workers Association on a march from Delano to Sacramento.
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Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez starts the crusade for justice in Denver, Co.
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Mexican American Youth Organization, forms chapters on College campuses in Texas
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250 students representing seven Los Angeles colleges and universities meet to form the United Mexican American Students.
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Students in LA stage walkouts to the issues they faced. These included higher dropout rates, ban on speaking Spanish, and Eurocentric history.
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The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which helps protect the rights of Hispanic Americans is started by Mario G. Obledo.
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A group similar to the Black Panthers, that focused on the neighborhood empowerment of Chicanos in Chicago and later New York. The groups aim was civil and human rights
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Responding to violent repression on Farm workers leads Cesar Chavez to begin a 25-day fast to keep the farm worker movement non-violent.
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Students in Denver stage walkout to protest the same issues as their LA counterparts
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The conference discussed the term Chicano over other descriptive words for Mexican-Americans, as well developed the movements manifesto "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán" or "the Spiritual Plan of Aztlán".
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A group similar to the Black Panthers, the Brown Berets were known for their direct protest of police brutality. They emerged in the late 1960's
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Protests at the school leads to Wa. Univeristy being the first campus to stop having grapes as a way to avoid non-union grapes.
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Grape growers sign and recognize the UFW as a union after 5 years of protests.
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As protest to the Kent shootings thousands of Washington University students march to downtown Seattle.
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Apart of the Chicano Movement
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Brown Berets mimic AIM's takeover of Alcatraz and invade Catalina Island
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This act stopped the discrimination towards non-English speaking students and started the implementation of more Bilingual programs at schools
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The rights act is expanded to included Hispanic Americans