Chicanos+Movement

The Chicano Movement helped Mexicans Americans to gained more rights on voting, education, and political rights.The movement worked on abolishing all the negative ethnic stereotypes that the media portrayed Mexicans.Chicano is the label for the sons and daughters of the Mexican immigrants. The Chicano movement provided the Mexicans with organizations to protect them selves from those who discriminated them for being Mexican. One of the many organizations "League of united Latin American citizens" which was formed in 1929, till this day is still an organization that are still going.

T he Chicano Movement had been fomenting since the end of the U.S.- Mexican War in 1848, when the current U.S-Mexican border took form and hundreds of thousands of Mexicans became U.S. citizens overnight. The movement became more active after World war 2, American G.I Forum (AGIF), which was formed by returning Mexican American veterans.Mexican American civil rights activists also achieved several major legal victories including the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster Supreme court ruling which declared that segregating children of "Mexican and Latin descent" was unconstitutional and the 1954 Hernandez v. Texas ruling which declared that Mexican Americans and other racial groups in the United States were entitled to equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S Constitution.