Chicano Civil Rights Leaders - Quiz 1

Young Texas college student who helped create La Raza Unida political party

• Cesar Chavez

• Dr. Hector Garcia

• "Corky" Gonzales

• Jose Angel Gutierrez

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers; he led the grape pickers march in California, organized agricultural boycotts and was inspired by Gandhi

• Dr. Hector Garcia

• Cesar Chavez

• Ruben Salazar

• Reies Lopez Tijerina

Chicano activist from Denver most noted for his epic poem “I am Joaquin”

• Cesar Chavez

• Ruben Salazar

• Sal Castro

• "Corky" Gonzales

She was a co-founder of the United Farm Workers, also led many boycotts and successfully organized strikes and labor so farm workers got better pay

• Martha Cotera

• Dolores Huerta

• Emma Tenayuca

• Sandra Cisneros

Organized the American G.I. Forum to advocate for Latino veterans after WWII

• Dr. Hector Garcia

• Felix Longoria

• Jose Angel Gutierrez

• Ruben Salazar

Reporter for the LA Times who was struck and killed by a tear gas canister while reporting on an anti-Vietnam march

• Martha Cotera

• Reies Lopez Tijerina

• Ruben Salazar

• Sal Castro

She organized several strikes among Texas pecan farm workers – her work focused on better wages for female farm workers

• Emma Tenayuca

• Delores Huerta

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Martha Cotera

Early activist in the Chicano movement, advocated for land grants that were ignored after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, did extensive research in an attempt to get land back to the descendants of those owning land before the Mexican-American War in Arizona and New Mexico

• Reies Lopez Tijerina

• Ruben Salazar

• Dr. Hector Garcia

• Cesar Chavez

Writer and teacher educated in El Paso, major activist in the Chicana feminist movement

• "Corky" Gonzales

• Dolores Huerta

• Julia Alvarez

• Martha Cotera

Who was the teacher that helped lead student protests and walk-outs in East LA and lost his job (temporarily) as a result?

• Sal Castro

• Cesar Chavez

• Ruben Salazar

• Dr. Hector Garcia