Hispanics in the America: the 1960's &70s

Hispanics in the America: the 1960's &70s

Objectives:

• Explain how the Hispanics fought for their Civil Rights in a decade of change.

• Identify changes made due to Hispanics fighting for equality

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Not JFK but LBJ

• The Voting Rights Act

• Denied the vote

• 1975 was a turning point for Latinos

• President Gerald Ford, a Republican, the extension ended discrimination against so-called “language minorities,” 

• Translate registration materials into Spanish

Brown Berets

• Founded in Los Angeles in the late 1960s

•  Influential community-based social justice organization

• Leading role in the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

• Active in Los Angeles’ Eastside neighborhoods

• Stood up for the Hispanic " Barrios" in the areas of educational inequality, healthcare access, police brutality, and wartime casualties

• Major success,  El Barrio Free Clinic

• Had to hide from local law enforcement

Multiple Choice

What is the correct name of the law that was passed in the mid 1960s that was signed by LBJ?

• Civil Rights Act 1964

• Voter turn out Act of 1965

• The Latino Translation Act of 1964

• The Act to Immigrant 1965

Multiple Choice

The turning point for Latinos and voting came in what year?

• 1964

• 1965

• 1975

• 1985

Multiple Choice

Voting ballots now must come in...

• one language

• two languages only

• all languages for the major populations of the area

• English only

Open Ended

List two items you have learned about so far.

Vietnam War

• No identity

• Lumped in with whites

• Drafted in large numbers

• Citizenship

• Disproportionate casualty rates

El Movimiento

• The Chicano Movement

• Advocated social and political empowerment

• Yo soy Joaquín---> Corky Gonzales

• Tried to be White

• Had been a racial slur

• Too many issues in one

• The creation of bilingual and bicultural programs in the southwest, improved conditions for migrant workers, the hiring of Chicano teachers, and more Mexican-Americans serving as elected officials.

More than just School walk outs

• The 60s was an explosive era

• School walk outs

• Discrimination

• Ended in some promise

• Where do you see the Hispanic Culture today? Stop and Think

A new wave of migration

• Between 1965 and 1986, saw an unprecedented surge in circular, undocumented migration.

• Mexican officials encouraged the departures of working-class men as a solution to high unemployment and population growth in the country.

• Undocumented migrants deserved constitutional rights

• A period of circular migration not permeant

Low and Slow

A different culture

The 50s hotrods no way

Low Riding started in the late 60s with bricks in the trunk or cut springs

Open Ended

List two items from today

Political Power

Herman Badillo is elected into the U.S. House of Representatives

 Angel Gutierrez forms a political party, La Raza Unida

1970s we see a lot of Change

• 1973 Miami officially becomes bilingual

• Maurice Ferre becomes mayor of Miami, making him the first Puerto Rican

• 1974 Willie Velasquez of San Antonio organizes thousands of voter registration drives across the Southwest

• Some set Backs still: Russian-born immigrant Emmy Shafer spearheads a campaign to put an end to bilingualism and make English the official language of Miami

• While in El Salvador they had a war over Soccer with Honduras, crazy but true.