Civil Rights for Latinos

Resources:

• Timeline (Answers all 3 Questions)

• Mexican Labor Movement (Stop at the Great Depression)

• Order of Sons of America

• Oxnard Strike

• Mexican and Japanese Laborers Form a Union

• Over More than a Hundred Years of Farm Labor History, Japanese and Mexican Americans Have Been Both Allies and Adversaries

• Jovita Idar

• Meeting of the First Mexican Congress

• Las Gorras Blancas

• The First Mexican Congress

• Strike of Orange Pickers

• El Monte Berry Strike

• Pecan Shellers Strike

Essential Research Questions 

1.  What was the problem that your activist group was trying to improve? (Standard #1B)

2.  What methods/strategies did they use to try to solve this problem? (Standard #1B)

3.  How effective/successful was this group at creating change and why? (Standard #1A and #1C)

4.  How are activists today trying to solve problems that are similar or related to your topic? (Standard #4)