Ethnic Studies 6.1 (Chicano Movement)
Across
- 3. environment of the workplace, including hours, rest periods and safety for employees
- 6. mass refusal of employees to work to obtain better working conditions and salaries
- 8. Filipino American labor organizer who founded the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
- 9. refusal to buy or use a company's goods and services in protest against its policies
- 10. separation of people based on their race or ethnic group
- 14. part of the anti-Vietnam war movement, raised awareness about the effects of the war on Chicanos
- 17. being deprived of the right to vote
- 18. plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms from 1941-1964
- 19. when someone refuses to eat until some demands are met
- 20. 1968 protest of Mexican American students against racial discrimination in the public school system
Down
- 1. Mexicans remaining in the United States were guaranteed "the right to their property, language, and culture"
- 2. union founded to fight for better working conditions and fair compensation for agricultural workers
- 4. person of Mexican descent living in the United States
- 5. 1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War, ceding over half of Mexico's territory to the United States
- 7. group that is not an official army, yet operates and is organized like an army
- 11. people who travel from farm to farm picking crops
- 12. activist group formed in 1967 in response to police brutality against Mexican Americans
- 13. Mexican American labor leader and civil rights activist who worked to improve life for agricultural workers
- 15. agricultural worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union
- 16. official agreement between the employer and the employee