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Mendez v. Westminister
a 1947 federal court case that challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, California. http://mendezwestminstercase.blogspot.com -
Creation of the American GI Forum
- What is was: AGIF is a congressionally-cahrted hispanic veterans and civil rights organization
- Cause: Dr. Hector Garcia started the AGIF because of racism towards the latino race on the naval air station of Corpus Christi
- Purpose: to gain equal rights for the latino veterans
- Effect: Latinos instantly got a leader and many AGIF branches opened across the US
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National Farm Workers Association
- What it is: after the march from Delano to Sacramento the NFWA and AWOC joined to create the NFW and was founded by Cesar Chavez
- Cause: series of strikes in 1965, one of the strikes being the grape strike
- Purpose: to gain workers rights
- Effect: contributed a number of innovations to the art of social protest
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Passage of The Immigration Reform And Control Act
This act required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status; made it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants knowingly;
legalized certain seasonal agricultural illegal immigrants, and;
legalized illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982 https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/immigration-reform-and-control-act-1986-irca -
Obama's executive order regarding undocumented child Immigrants
An American Immigration policy started by the Obama administration in 2012 to allow immigrants who entered the country as minors to get a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a working permit http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/supreme-court-obama-immigration -
Joan Baez
Joan Baez was known for recording, composing and producing songs of peace and spiritually. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/hispanic-activists_n_4100373.html -
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Problems and goals still faced today
