Chicano Civil Rights Movement Timeline

By Sarahi Montero

  • Texas independence

    Texas independence
    The republic of Texas gains its independece from Mexico.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe

    Treaty of Guadalupe
    The treaty of Guadalupe ends the Mexican War and gives half the land area of Mexico to the United States including Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Parts of Colorado, Utah and Nevada.

  • Mexican Immigration

    Mexican Immigration
    The advancement of the Railroad increased Mexican Immigration.

  • Boarder patrol

    Boarder patrol
    THe boarder patrol is created by Congress.

  • Peacon strike

    Peacon strike
    Young latinos and Mexican Ameican peacan shellers strike in Texas.

  • Hernandez vs. Texas

    Hernandez vs. Texas
    In Hernandez vs. Texas the supreme court recognizes that Hispanics are a sepereate class of people suffering from profound descrimination.

  • Operation Wetback

    Operation Wetback
    Opperation Wetback deports 3.8 million Mexicans.

  • Brown breets

    Mexican American youth orginization is formed on college campus in Texas.
    Davis Sanchez forms the Brown Breets to begin a series if pickets in front of police stations.