Extreme poverty - low wage/no fulltime employment - low quality accomodation, makeshift camps and chicano 80% californian welfare cases Steriotype that chicano was lazy - actually work hard harvesting,fishing/hunting - no legal protection cant fight
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Cesar chavez
campaigner - no shoes and tents, sometimes tents - romon catholic so no violence but join Community service organisation - chicano rights, commit and hardwork = promotions 1962 national director but CSO no union so chavez resign and so national farm
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National farm workers association
Establish union for welfare support, once grew hoped to gain high economic rights 1962 Nfwa credit union, insurance scheme gr8 as banks no help poverty - advisers help families deal with local authorities so treat fair 200 1962 and 1200 1965
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La huelga
NfWA 1965, filipano farm workers Agricultural workers organisation committee strike vinyards, NFWA support 10.000 farm workers firms no negotiate, break strike by evict and hire strike breakers NFWA+ AWOC merge UFW - atract media attention
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La huelga cont
pilgramage from vineyards to offices of gov of california, chavez fasted 25 days 1968, kennedy publicly supported 1968UFW boycott, table grape boycott , 17 mill stopped buying grapes
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UFW achievements
Schenely vineyards negotiated a fair contract with farm workers 1970 the UFW forced the delan grape to increase wages, national minimum and "cultural agricultural labour relations act" 1975 - union legal rights and farms required to negotiate them
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Other hispanic protests
politcial and social ( mexacan american political association) MAPA - encourage to vote and support MA 1962 Roybal elected to representative, youth chicanos for community action( YCCA) - better education + employment - involved Chicano blowouts
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Hispanics problems with protests
not media support due to - formed only 6% of american population, blak pop 12%, fed gov less sympothetic , less number and less voters, less political influrence, hispanics fragmented from start, NA cubanand puerto ricans -diff politicl and cultual
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Native Americans
25% reservations, tribes cherokee, soux. Govern selfs - police law and tribunal but reservations manage by bureau of indian affairs (BIA) + tribes tence - 70% unemployment in reserves 32000, 8000 job in navajo - alcoholism 84% arrests alcohol
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Civil rights act achievement
outlawed racial discrimination at work, legally defence able right - johnson education act 1965 National advisory council on indian education increase literacy rates 1968 national council on indian opportunity-400 million tackle alcoholism healthho
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Native american activists
National congress of american Indians,NCAI, national indian youth council NIYC - represent all groups eizenhower terminate reservations - part of mainstream the groups protested this,lobbying the gov
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Native american protests cont
American Indian chicargo congress - with uni- decided on alternate to termination , reverse policy and power from local leaders to tribe effective, kennedy tried to make reservations better - 56% of areas redevelopment areas - gov funding and assist
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Native americans protest cont cont
johnson - indian resources deveolpment act 1967 - sell and mortgage land raise financial resources - 1966 termination abandon NIYC red nationalism/ red power - self determination rights - Indians of all tribes (IAT ocupied alcatrax demand return NA
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Cesar chavez
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campaigner - no shoes and tents, sometimes tents - romon catholic so no violence but join Community service organisation - chicano rights, commit and hardwork = promotions 1962 national director but CSO no union so chavez resign and so national farm
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