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The Seven Issues Of The Chicano Rights Movement

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The Chicano rights movement was mainly for equality the latino community. Most of the time things would turn out with no differences made in the community. The Chicano rights movement was made for those who didn't have a voice and to help those in need, but also to have equal rights in the Latino community. reason the Chicano rights movement started was for farm workers getting the pay they deserve. The other issue was Land rights for those farm worker because they were getting land they worked for taken away from them, So they saw that as something that wasn’t right. There were a total of seven issues of why the Chicano rights movement was made. The 7 issues are: Farm Labor, Political power(lack of Latino and allies representation), Education(segregation),

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