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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Empire Zinc Strike

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Oct 17 1950-52
Unequal pay, jab safety & discrimination
They didn’t have any running water
The women were at the picket line . They held fasts, support from ANMA

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Salt of the Earth

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1954 American drama film. Blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in communist politics. Banned red baited movie. Its plot centers on a long and difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico

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Homenaje a Tenochtitlan

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A tribute to Tenochtitlan. During the day of the dead.

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CSO

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Community service organization
Launched by ignacio lopez and Fred Ross
Goals:fighting housing discrimination , po. Brutality & school segreg. Provided free legal services to anyone whose human rights were violated by immig. Policies.
1st goals =enc. Mexican Americans to run for political office & city officials
Conducted 35 invest. Of police misconduct. (47-56) roots = east LA
CSO leaders= middle class
Struggled for the defense of foreign born ppl.
First called community political org.
Reg. 12,000 new voters . helped roybal to la city council, 1949 first mexican since 1881

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“Operation Wetback”

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1954
General Joseph m. Swing
-Military style campaign to kick Mexicans out
-Requested millions of dollars to build 150 mi. -Long fence & set deportation quota for each target area.
–> deported more than 1 mil. Mexicans annually

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“La Conciencia de la Mestiza”

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Written by Gloria Anzaldua

Maiz, “We are the comal sizzling hot,the hot tortilla, the hungry mouth.”

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“Yo Soy Joaquin”

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A poem by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, 1967.

“..or whatever i call myself. I look the same. i feel the same. i cry and sing the same.”

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Sleepy Lagoon Trial

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1942-3 Jose Diaz found dead in 1942
Lt. Ayers have overtly racist testimony
12 convicted of murder
22 trailed for murder
Sleepy lagoon defense responds to verdict
Appeared at trial with dirty hair & unclean clothes
Young women held until 21

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Zoot Suit Riots

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  • 1943
  • East LA
  • marines started the riots and attacked the youngsters
  • young pachucos were unfairly attacked
  • the event was overlooked by the government
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Pachucos/as

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Mexican youngsters gangstas

zoot suit

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Larry Itliong

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Leader of the Filipino movement worked with Chavez
collaborated with the cause of chavez
initially they struck for better wages, then demanded for contracts

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Robert Kennedy

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US Senator worked as an ally to workers during the national 1965 Grape Strike and Boycott.

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NFWA (Delano) Grape Strike and Boycott

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1st founding org.
National Farm Workers Association
Founded by chavez and Huerta
Boycott= best effective Strategy

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UFW

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United Farm Workers’ Union

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Cesar Chávez

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Labor leaders helped to found the UFWOC (1965). Along side Dolores Huerta.
NFW founder
Migrant worker as child
Fred Ross was his mentor
became the best known Latino American civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members

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Dolores Huerta

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Born in mining town New Mexico 1930.
Father = miner mom=beet worker
CSO organizer ..met Chavez thru cso
Teacher realized prob didn’t begin in school, but in the fields.

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El Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española

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An organization was founded in 1938; it insisted on rights for all Latinas/os regardless of their citizenship status.
first national Latino civil rights assembly

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League of United Latin American Citizens

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Rep. The upward mobile sect. Of the Mexican am. People & fought to integrate its people into the american social and economic mainstream

  • community service not activism
  • politics of the middle class
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Accommodationist

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a person who seeks compromise with an opposing point of view, typically a political one.

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Primary Labor Sectors

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Natural resources(eg. agriculture). The primary sector is usually most important in less developed countries, and typically less important in industrial countries.

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Secondary Labor Sectors

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includes those economic sectors that create a finished, usable product: production and construction.

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Luisa Moreno

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She and tenayuca worked together
UCAPAWA rep.
Sleepy lagoon def commit.

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Asociación Nacional México Americana

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Labor and civil rights
Supported strikers in zinc empire strike 
- farmer rights
-bracerco rights
-ally to black civil rights activism 
- anti- imperialism
Red baited by fed gov.
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Chicano Ethos

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Chicano Collective concerns
Values/goals- equality and justice
Late 60’s

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MEChA

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(Moviemiento Estudiente CHicano Aztlan) 
Reclaiming pride in community
After Santa Barbara conf. 
Focus on educ. 
Claim ethos after change name to MEChA
- the univ. To serve the community
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Brown Berets

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1967 
The brown guardians of the barrio
Self defense for our ppl. 
Wanted to fight against police brutality 
13 chapters 
Black panther ally & state of mind 
Mentored by john Luce 
1968 . support of LA strike 
Leaders arrested w/sal castro 
Supported hs students "blowout" 
Started a breakfast program for students
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Blow Outs

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1968-69
9000-10,000 hs students walked out
Corky gonzalez supported them
Brown berets support.led by David Sanchez ( arrested)
Goal: put end to discrimination & other injustices
High push out rates school system = more than 50%

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El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán

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Adopted by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez

Called for Economic Self Determination,Community Control of Schools, and Self Defense

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National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference

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March 1969
Goals: nationalism & self determination 
Adopted "chicano" vs hispanic
Called by corky Gonzalez & crusades for justice 
Drafted el plan espiritual de aztlan. 1969
1)unity
2) econ self def. 
3)educ.
4) institution
5) self def.
6) culture
7) political liberation
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Corky Gonzales

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Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez
Born 1928 Denver CO
Boxer than became active in the democrat party “war on poverty”
Fired for his involve. W/ the walkouts
Newspaper: el gallo. La voz de la justicia
Founder of crusade for justice
1969 first annual Chicano youth conference at Denver - adopted el plan espiritual de aztlan
Chicano= resistance

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National Chicano Moratorium on Viet Nam

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Aug. 29 1970
30,000 ppl -1200 police brutality 
Killed 15 yr old boy
Committee Formed by the brown berets
Unfair respect
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Ruben Salazar

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-Journalist
-Ruben exposed the inconsistencies in police reports .
Hit in head by tear gas missile. . 2 hrs later body disc. Dead in bar

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Aztlán

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Name of original homeland
The southwest
Belongs to those who sow the land

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Crusade for Justice

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(1966) Founded by Rodolfo “corky” Gonzalez
Former heavyweight champ. Went into work for democrat. Party 1957 & war on poverty 1965
Cult. Center

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Reis López Tijerina

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Born 1926 in texas
Became a preacher & moved to NM witnessed the poverty of the ppl .
Called “ the tiger “
1963 founded La alianza federal de mercedes , invoking the treaty of guadalupe
Believed that national forest in tierra amarilla belonged to the pueblo de San Joaquin
Symbol for convicted of political crimes rather than crimes against society

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Alianza Federal de Mercedes

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In 1963 Reis Lopez Tijerina founded La alianza federal de mercedes , invoking the treaty of guadalupe
Believed that national forest in tierra amarilla belonged to the pueblo de San Joaquin

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Teatro Campesino

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Founded by Luis Valdez
Founded in 1965 on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines of Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers Union, the company created and performed “actos” or short skits on flatbed trucks and in union halls.

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Las Hermanas

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Founded in 1970 in Houston by Gloria Gallardo, Gregoria Ortega ..NUNS
Goals: raise awareness of the needs of the community & to work for social change
Influ. By liberation theology & Vatican reform
Committed to empowering ppl
Worked closely with UFW.
More concerned with service to the poor rather than racism

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Day of the Dead

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A Mexican holiday observed throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died

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Cinco de Mayo

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A celebration held on May 5. It is celebrated in the United States and in Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla, where the holiday is called El Día de la Batalla de Puebla (English: The Day of the Battle of Puebla).Chicanos also often see the day as a source of pride, one way they can honor their ethnicity is to celebrate this day

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