“L”- The word “Chicano” is used to describe people of Mexican origin living in the United States but it wasn’t until the outbreak of the civil rights movement in the 1960s that the term “Chicano” became popular. The Chicano Movement was also known as the Chicano Student Movement because it formed as a result of the educational inequality that Mexican-Americans faced. Students walked out of school in protest of fighting for educational equality in their communities. Later the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unlawful to keep students who couldn’t speak English from getting an education therefore Congress passed the Equal Opportunity Act in 1974 .They adopted the term “Chicano” as a point of pride.
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- What other goals besides educational equality were they trying to achieve with the Chicano Movement ?
- Why is Chicano also spelled with an X?
- Where is the word Chicano used more?
