Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

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Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil
Rights Movement

• The Struggle in the Fields

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El Plan de Delano

• September 16, 1965 the beginnings of the modern
  farm worker movement
• Declaration of the human rights of farm workers
  issued by Cesar Chavez

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El Plan de Delano

• Foundation of the modern UFW (United Farm
  Workers)
• Some say this is also marks the beginning of the
  Chicano Movement

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Farm workers issues

• Union recognition with union contracts
• Fair wages, pesticide controls, unemployment
  insurance,
• Minimum wages, seniority and hiring hall
• Secondary boycotts
• National grape boycott
• Chavez 25 day fast, 1968

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Other Major Events

• July 29, 1970major victory for UFW major
  contracts signed with many growers
• Proposition 22, 1972 upheld the right to
  secondary boycotts
• The California Farm Labor Law, 1976 includes the
  right to form unions, secret ballot elections,
  workers protections
• Proposition 14, 1976 attempt to make the law a
  part of the California Constitution to guarantee
  the integrity of the law and secure firm funding.
  Failed.