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For hundreds of years the people of Mexican origin have fought for civil rights and equality on their own land. Unlike other minorities in this continent, the Mexican and Chicano people did not travel half way across the world to face discrimination, they found it in their own home. ... This is a crucial fight for political future of the Chicano people in the U. ... I will also cover the involuntarily transformation from Mexican to Mexican American/Chicano and the injustices that go with it. In order to grasp the issue of Mexican segregation and the Mexican struggle for civil rights, we have to go back 500 years to the time when the Spanish ‘discovered’ America. ... The Spanish and European acts that began during this time set precedence for future acts that have placed Mexicans as foreigners in their own land and have created the struggles that we see today in the fight for civil rights. ... The agreed to Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included several rights that were to be passed on to the former Mexican citizens who occupied the land prior to the U. ... These promised rights included the legal acknowledgement of land ownership from the Mexican to the U. ... At this point, we begin to see the segregation and discrimination against one people who man-made boundaries have split into two, Mexicans and now Mexican American or Chicano. ... The 1900’s was a century were Mexican Americans joined the fight for equal rights although their struggle against the discrimination committed against them is not as heavily documented or referred to as that of the Blacks; Mexican American or now Chicanos achieved great accomplishments in this fight. Part of the reason for poor Chicano documentation in the 1900’s is that for census reasons all Chicanos had been classified as Caucasian or White. ... Although these laws target mainly the voting rights of Blacks, Chicanos were also included because the Anglo community did not regard Chicano as part of the ‘White’ race as the census stated. ... Here the local laws segregated Chicanos and even worse yet since this type of segregation did not fall under the ‘separate but equal’ act most of the segregated Chicano schools did not receive the mandated funding. ... Bastrop ISD (1948) prohibited schools from designation Chicano only buildings and Hernandez v. ... However, much like the Chicano civil rights struggle all of these cases get very little attention at a national level. As we move into the 1950s, we find yet another government operation aimed at diminishing the Mexican/Chicano population in the U. ... The 1960s and 1970s brought with them the most daring and powerful Chicano struggles for civil rights in the U. |
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