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Cesar Chavez
Cesar was born in Arizona near Yuma. At a very young age he and his family worked as migrant farmers and experienced terrible working conditions with even worse pay. Through his young experiences he was motivated to fight for the treatment and rights of farmers and later founded the national farm workers association in 1962. -
Event 3: 1947 Mendez V. Westminster
Mendez V. Westminster was a federal court case between latino students. It was used to change segergation laws in schools. -
Event 2: The Creation of the American GI forum in 1948
The American GI forum was an act to help Mexican Americans gain civil rights and also gave benefits to the latino veterans who didn't receive them from the GI bill of rights. The movement was lead by Hector P. Garcia and was supported by about 700 latino veterans. -
Event 4: Cesar Chavez Founds The National Farm Workers' Association in 1962
The United Farm workers association was founded to help fight for the rights of latino immigrants who experienced poor pay and bad working conditions. -
Event 5: Reagan passes the Immigration reform and control act granting amnesty to illegal immigrants
Under Reagan's new immigration plan he hoped to to decrease the amount of immigrants coming from Mexico into the United States. With this plan. -
Event 6: Obamas executive order regarding undocumented child immigrants.
Allows certain immigrants who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit. -
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Event 8: Two things they still fight for today
One goal is Immigration and education reforms are of key importance to the community.
One problem the unimportance of immigrants in american society was hundreds of thousands of Latino immigrants and others participate in the Day Without Immigrants, boycotting work, school and shopping, to symbolize the important contributions immigrants make to the American economy.
