Was The Chicano Movement So Successful

The Chicano Movement (El Movimiento): The ideology behind this movement was chicanismo which is Mexican-American empowerment. This movement was caused by racism in the United States. This movement was the civil rights movement for Chicanos. Methods to reach their goals were through occupation (protest) and boycotting. Reforms the movement called for included restoration of land grants, farm workers’ rights, and access to better educational opportunities. This group was successful because they knew that the way and possibly only way they would be able to get these things that they wished for would to have political power. The Chicano Movement was successful because of important people that made it successful that empowered other Chicanos to
Those students would go on to establish latino study programs. Another reason that they were successful was because of the Raza Unida de Cristal. This was a new political party centered on Chicano nationalism founded by José Ángel Gutiérrez. This party’s success was mostly shown in Southern Texas when at one point the party swept city council, the school board, and the mayoralty elections in Crystal City, Cotulla, and Carrizo Springs. Another person that made the Chicano Movement so successful was because of Willie Velásquez. Willie Velásquez got Mexican and Mexican Americans to register to vote. They were never able to win that way because of the way that the zoning was set up, so Velásquez knew the only way to win was to take them to court. He went from town to town documenting abuses and began filing Voting Rights Lawsuits. They never lost a case, even after 85 voting rights cases. The reason for their winning was that the law was so obvious and the violations were so clear and the results were so directly connected to changing the election system. After it was changed people started getting
The student movement was made up of students (usually college) activists involved in counter-culture. Students part of this movement experienced alienation from their more conservative friends and families. The Student Movement was not as successful as the Chicano Movement. However, the movement did has some success. Many female students who had protested for civil rights and against the Vietnam War began fighting for the equality of women. These women worked hard to change abortion laws and tried unsuccessfully to get the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) approved by the Georgia legislature. Homosexual men and women also began speaking out. At UGA, the Committee on Gay Education successfully sued the university and in late 1972 won the right to hold a dance for gays and lesbians on university grounds. So many other groups and movements formed during this time; the names of some groups were the Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and Southern Student Organizing Committee. A change that the Student Movement created were because of counterculture followers, commonly called "hippies," these followers advocated illegal drug use, communal living, relaxed sexual norms, and other behaviors that went against mainstream American culture. A