18.3 - Latino Americans Organize (pp. 529-533)

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  1. 4. Cesar Chavez went on a 25 day ___ strike in 1968 to support the UFW.
  2. 5. Group organized by Dr. Hector Garcia to protect the rights of Mexican-American veterans.
  3. 7. Arizona native and labor leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers..
  4. 10. Many Mexican American workers worked as this type of laborer.
  5. 12. Mexican-American political party created in 1969.
  6. 13. Mexican-American Youth Organization, organized by Jose Angel Gutierrez.
  7. 14. Latina activist who helped co-found the United Farm Workers, then went on to be an activist for labor in Washington DC.
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  1. 1. This group is perhaps the second largest Latino group in the US.
  2. 2. Many Mexican-Americans and other Latin Americans began calling themselves this in the 1970s.
  3. 3. The practice of teaching immigrant students in their own language while learing English.
  4. 6. Being restored or returned to one's country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship.
  5. 7. Many Latinos from this country came after Castro's rise to power.
  6. 8. The court case __________v. Texas extended more rights to Latino citizens by ending the exclusion of Mexican-Americans from juries in Texas.
  7. 9. Section of southwestern towns where Spanish-speaking people were segregated to.
  8. 11. Chicano artists began painting these in the 1960s to showcase their heritage and culture.
  9. 15. Organization created in 1929 by several other Mexican American groups coming together.