What Were The Main Organizations Of The Chicano Civil Rights Movement And Their Objectives?
The “Chicano Civil Rights Movement” of the 1960s was a socio-political movement based upon furthering Mexican-American rights to achieve empowerment. The “Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” concluded the Mexican-American war and promised the right to property, culture, and language for the Mexicans who remained in the United States territory. However, most Mexicans were already in the U.S., and the immigrants who arrived later were forced to live as second-class citizens. With