The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Movement for Civil Rights or simply El Movimiento, was a civil rights movement whose goal was to empower the American population of Mexican descent.
The movement gave voice to a wide variety of problems and demands of the Mexican population in the United States. UU., From the resumption of land grants, to the vindication of the rights of agrarian workers, the right to a quality education, the right to vote and other citizen rights; Chicano activists also carried out awareness-raising work on the collective history of Mexican-Americans. From a social point of view, the Chicano Movement fought against the negative stereotypes of Hispanics and Latin Americans present in the collective consciousness and the American media.
