Ethnic Studies 6.1 (Chicano Movement)

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Across
  1. 3. environment of the workplace, including hours, rest periods and safety for employees
  2. 6. mass refusal of employees to work to obtain better working conditions and salaries
  3. 8. Filipino American labor organizer who founded the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
  4. 9. refusal to buy or use a company's goods and services in protest against its policies
  5. 10. separation of people based on their race or ethnic group
  6. 14. part of the anti-Vietnam war movement, raised awareness about the effects of the war on Chicanos
  7. 17. being deprived of the right to vote
  8. 18. plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms from 1941-1964
  9. 19. when someone refuses to eat until some demands are met
  10. 20. 1968 protest of Mexican American students against racial discrimination in the public school system
Down
  1. 1. Mexicans remaining in the United States were guaranteed "the right to their property, language, and culture"
  2. 2. union founded to fight for better working conditions and fair compensation for agricultural workers
  3. 4. person of Mexican descent living in the United States
  4. 5. 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War, ceding over half of Mexico's territory to the United States
  5. 7. group that is not an official army, yet operates and is organized like an army
  6. 11. people who travel from farm to farm picking crops
  7. 12. activist group formed in 1967 in response to police brutality against Mexican Americans
  8. 13. Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist who worked to improve life for agricultural workers
  9. 15. agricultural worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union
  10. 16. official agreement between the employer and the employee