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History Chicano movement was a movement that occurred approximately around 1960's. The movement was a result of the Mexican-American civil rights movement that occurred in the 1940's which sought out to achieve Mexican-American empowerment . It occurred all over America mostly in Southern California some of the cities involved was Los Angeles ,Fresno,Chicago and El Paso. It merged because Chicanos wanted to challenge people that didn't understand the Mexican culture and heritage. It challenged what people typically thought about Mexicans. The Chicano movements fought for educational, social, and political equality in the United States. Many people also contributed to the Chicano Movement many among those were Brown Berets, Corky Gonzalez, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, UMAS, Sal Castro and Ruben Salazar. Each had their own special way of contributing but all had one thing in common they all fought for the equality of Chicanos. They were the civil rights activists
The United Mexican American students was one of the organization involved in the youth conference in 1969 along them was The Brown Berets is a chicano community organization that begin in the 1960's and still active today their main focus was to fight police harassment and the inadequate of public schools, health care, job opportunities and political representation. Corky Gonzalez was a political activist that brought together the first ever Chicano youth conference in 1969. He is often referred to as a Chicano movement founder. Dolores Huerta was a co founder along with Cesar Chavez to the United Farm Workers ( UFW). The UFW was founded in 1962 and it is one of the first organizations to give strength to the Chicano Movement, they fought for equality for chicanos in the agriculture business they wanted to insurance workers rights, benefits and a safer working environment. One of the most important people that was very active in the Chicano Movement was Sal Castro. He was a teacher at