...2012 In the rare occasions when the U.S looks at unions, the media tends to view social movements as the creation of strong leaders. The view of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers is one of the most evident events of all. Cesar Chavez the famous activist would have been 85 years old today. After his death in 1993 an abundance of coverage assumed that the Unite Farm Workers would not survive the tragedy. The Chicano movement began during the Civil Rights era with three main goals which included the restoration of land, rights for farm workers and developments in education. Prior to the 1960’s Latinos had no influence when it came to the national political arena. There was a complete turnaround in the 1960’s when the Mexican American Political Association worked to elect President John F. Kennedy, creating Latinos as a significant voting alliance. After Kennedy won the election he showed his appreciation towards the Latino community by assigning Hispanics to posts in his administration and he also took in consideration the concerns of the Hispanic community. Latinos, mainly Mexican Americans began demanding and were very persisting towards the reforms made in labor and education to meet their needs. Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the Chicano movement in the 1960's used economic pressure rather than violence to pursue civil rights for Mexican-Americans. The fight during the 1960’s to secure unionization for farm workers is the most well-known battle for Mexican Americans...
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...The documentary Latino Americans: Pride and Prejudice revolves around the civil rights movement of chicano Americans. The documentary describes societal issues concerning hispanics in the mid 20th century and how the chicano community worked to overcome the injustice set upon them. The documentary describes a program instated during WWII called the Bracero program which allowed for hispanic laborers to immigrate to the U.S. for work that involved manual labor. These chicano laborers were a very integral part of the economy and daily life in the United States as they were the backbone of agriculture and manual labor. These people were treated as second class citizens as they were subjected to segregation laws which prohibited them from practicing...
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...César Estrada Chávez was born March 31, and was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist. Born a Mexican American, Chavez probably is the most well known Mexican civil rights activist to date, and was heavily involved in the American labor movement. Chavez worked in the fields until 1952, when he became an organizer for the Community Service Organization (CSO), a Latino civil rights group. Father Donald McDonnell who served in Santa Clara County introduced Fred Ross, a community organizer, to Cesar Chavez. Chavez urged Mexican Americans to register and vote, and he traveled throughout California and made speeches in support of workers' rights. He later became CSO's national director in 1958. In 1962, Chavez left the...
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...Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta born April 10, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who was co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, and later the United Farm workers. Huerta has received many award and accolades and has remained a role model and voice to many in the Latino community. Huerta was born to Juan Fernandez and Alicia Chavez, they divorced when Huerta was just three years old. Both Huerta’s parents were active in the rights of people and the community itself. Huerta’s father was a field worker, miner, as well as a union activist. Huerta’s mother was a business woman who owned a restaurant and a 70-room hotel where she helped low wage workers. A lot of Huerta’s humanitarianism...
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...Cesar Chavez, an American hero, was a Latino civil rights activist and labor leader. Throughout Cesar Chavez’s struggles and non violent protests, he learned a lot about the importance of hard work and education. One of his most famous quotes has been “The end of all education should surely be service to others”. I believe that when Cesar Chavez said this, he was aiming to encourage people to continue to learn and finish their education, to pass on that knowledge to those less fortunate. Besides that though, he wanted people to help and represent those who had not the resources nor knowledge to fight for themselves. For me, this quote can be applied to every aspect of my life. As a Mexican-American girl and the eldest daughter of two immigrants,...
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...In 1961, representatives of sixty-seven tribes drew up a Declaration of Purposes criticizing the termination policy of the 1950’s and in 1964, hundreds of Indians lobbied in Washington for inclusion in the War on Poverty.* Indians suffered the most poverty and owned the highest disease and death rates of any other group in the U.S.* In an effort to resolve this, President Johnson proposed a National Council on Indian Opportunity in 1965, which provided many funds to reservations.* In 1968, Indian activists, or Native Americans, demanded “Red Power.”* They protested against the poor protection of their land and water rights and the desolation of their sacred sites. These groups formed cultural programs that taught their language and honored their beliefs. Indian groups such as the Navajo and Hopi protested strip mining, Taos Pueblo aimed to reclaim the Blue Lake sacred site, and Puyallup led “fish-ins” to regain the right to fish in the Columbia River and Puget Sound.* The American Indian Movement (AIM), the most militant group, founded in 1968 by Chippewas, Sioux, and Ojibwa attempted to end the police brutality on Indian reservations, or “red ghettos.”*The militant group, AIM, gave Indians a sense of pride towards their...
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...UIL Latino History Essay Una mujer de muchos logros What is History? What events are defined as history? Changing the world or even a community with just the tiniest of events is how history is created. Christy Martinez-Garcia is making history in Lubbock, Texas. Born and raised in Lubbock, Christy has long since been discourage for her race, yet none of these things have stopped her from achieving her goals. “Discouragement is my encouragement, tell me I can’t and I’m going to show you I can do it,” Christy stated when asked about herself and the hurdles of being an educated Latina. Christy has become a leader, activist, and an inspiration to an innumerable amount of individuals because of her endless aspirations to change the world. “Be fearless and have faith,” a quote Christy uses to conquer life endless impediments. Latino’s are often stereotyped as drug dealers, criminals, and gangbangers. None of these statements represent every single Latino. Christy is proof of this statement, she has proven every one of these stereotypes to be inaccurate. She has been the founder of various types of organizations, created a newspaper from the Latino perspective, and worked in grassroots communication in Washington, D.C. She is a woman of many accomplishments and has no intention of stopping. Latino Lubbock is one of Christy’s first biggest...
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...The Chicano Movement began during the civil rights era with three goals, which are, rights for farm workers, restoration of land, and education reforms. Latinos lacked influence in the national political arena before the 1960s. That changed when John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, this established Latinos as a significant voting bloc. After Kennedy was sworn into office, he appointed Hispanics to posts in his administration but he also considered the concerns of the Hispanic community. Mexican Americans began demanding that reforms be made in labor, education, and other sectors to meet their needs. Chicano radicals began demanding that the land is given to Mexican Americans during the civil rights era. They believed that it constituted...
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...concentrations of latin american people, and created a sense of pride that spread throughout the nation to create a form of self expression and identity for latin-american individuals that didn’t quite fit in to society. The original mindset was that they were too brown to be American, and too white to be Latino. According to (>>>)“Socially, the Chicano Movement addressed negative ethnic stereotypes of Mexicans in mass media and the American consciousness.” Essentially, they didn’t fit in to existing cultures; latin american people faced alienation from both the American culture they were born into, and the ethnic culture they descended from. This originated in the 1910 demand for labor in the U.S in the midwest-- “Mexicans began to migrate in large numbers after the Mexican Revolution in 1910, attracted to a demand for labor, especially in the midwest. They entered at a time where U.S residents were likely to be suspicious of immigrants.”(Donato, 1994)...
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...Vegetarianism David De Jesus Element of university composition and communication II COM/172 June 4, 2013 Dr. VIRGINIA SANTIAGO-ACUNA I. History II. Advantages and Desadvanges III. Vitamin and minerals IV. How many vegetarian are in the US V. Fames people History The term "vegetarian" was coined by the British Vegetarian Society in the mid-1800. (The Latin root of the word refers to the source of life.) However, vegetarianism itself dates back to a time before recorded history. Many anthropologists believe that most early humans ate mainly plant foods, being more like gatherers than hunters. This view is supported by the fact that the human digestive system resembles that of other plant-eaters rather than that of meat-eaters. The early "human as plant-eater" view is also supported by the fact that humans on meat-based diets contract receive major health problems such as heart disease and cancer much more frequently than people eating vegetarian diets. The Greek mathematician Pythagoras was a vegetarian, and vegetarians were often called Pythagoreans until a different word was created. You’ll ward off disease. Vegetarian diets are more healthful than the average American diet, particularly in preventing, treating or reversing heart disease and reducing the risk of cancer. You’ll keep your weight down. The standard American diet high in saturated fats and processed foods and low in plant-based foods and complex carbohydrates is making us...
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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...OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY OUTLINE OF OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY C O N T E N T S CHAPTER 1 Early America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CHAPTER 2 The Colonial Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CHAPTER 3 The Road to Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CHAPTER 4 The Formation of a National Government . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 CHAPTER 5 Westward Expansion and Regional Differences . . . . . . . 110 CHAPTER 6 Sectional Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 CHAPTER 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 CHAPTER 8 Growth and Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 CHAPTER 9 Discontent and Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 CHAPTER 10 War, Prosperity, and Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 CHAPTER 11 The New Deal and World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 CHAPTER 12 Postwar America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 CHAPTER 13 Decades of Change: 1960-1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 CHAPTER 14 The New Conservatism and a New World Order . . . . . . 304 CHAPTER 15 Bridge to the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 PICTURE PROFILES Becoming a Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...[pic] FIRST ARMY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY REPRESENTATIVE COURSE STUDENT GUIDE TO CULTURAL AWARENESS INDEX LESSON TITLE PAGE 1 Philosophical Aspects of Culture SG- 3 C1 Native American Experience SG- 4 C2 White American Experience SG- 23 C3 Arab American Experience SG- 43 C4 Hispanic American Experience SG- 53 C5 Black American Experience SG- 76 C6 Asian American Experience SG-109 C7 Jewish American Experience SG-126 C8 Women in the Military SG-150 C9 Extremist Organizations/Gangs SG-167 STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING FAMILIARIZED WITH ALL CLASS MATERIAL PRIOR TO CLASS. INFORMATION PAPER ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE Developed by Edwin J. Nichols, Ph.D. |Ethnic Groups/ |Axiology |Epistemology |Logic |Process | |World Views | | | | | |European |Member-Object |Cognitive |Dichotomous |Technology | |Euro-American |The highest value lies in the object |One knows through counting |Either/Or...
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...brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described. If I mentioned everybody who has impressed, inspired, taught, influenced and helped me along the way, this book would be several volumes long. Although I’ve had to be selec- tive, I hope that I’ve conveyed the push and pull of events and relationships that affected me and continue to shape and enrich my world today. Since leaving the White House I have embarked on a new phase of my life...
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