Soichiro Honda once said "Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection". So to say what movement was more successful than another, cannot be defined through only one means. I believe success can only measured later down the road, years after an event has happened to truly try and comprehend what they were trying to accomplish. So when comparing two chicano movements, you have to analyze and dig deep too see how much of an impact they had alone trying to accomplish their goals. The first chicano movement started was in the very early 1960's where they began talking about latino politics and rights. It was a progressive shift for latino politics to get the ball rolling for everyone else. However, with that said you
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In 1959, right at the very beginning of the 1960's The founding of the "Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) in California in 1959 and the Political Association of Spanish Speaking Organizations in Texas in 1960 provided good examples of this broad shift in political strategy, as Mexican American activists self-consciously concentrated on mobilizing voters as an ethnic bloc (though almost exclusively within the Democratic party)" (Sin Fronteras 181). This is the first major shift and step in latino politics. The forming of some type of organization for the betterment of not only latino-Americans everywhere, but the other minorities too I believe. Since these groups were forming around the same era as Martin Luther King Jr. So with that said, this was indeed a success for latinos everywhere that they could band together under one cause to push for their rights. MAPA was the largest drive behind the latino-political movement at the start of the 1960's. MAPA had many hopes and aspirations to empower the Mexican Americans by …show more content…
By the 1970's the civil rights act had already been passed through congress giving everyone "equal" rights to everything in America. I mean "equal", that even though we now had legislation saying we would all have the same rights to pursue in the United States. The sad truth was we really didn't. These activists had met together to talk about then president Carter's plan on immigration reform. With the recently announced "immigration reform legislation, the conference provided dramatic. Evidence of the extent to which the immigration controversy had become a major civil rights issue in the 1970s" (Sin Fronteras 179). It was that this "new-legislation" reform was just and what the United States needed for immigration. In reality the latino conference managed to pull examples on why this new reform was discriminatory against not only latin-american citizens but aliens of Latin descent. There was such a unanimous negative response to the "Carter Plan by Mexican American community groups, elected officials, and virtually every major national civil rights and political advocacy organization was a dramatic departure from traditional Mexican American positions on the immigration issue (Sin Fronteras 179). So after all was said and done at the end of the day, I believe this movement was by far more successful in accomplishing the tasks it had
In 1959, right at the very beginning of the 1960's The founding of the "Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) in California in 1959 and the Political Association of Spanish Speaking Organizations in Texas in 1960 provided good examples of this broad shift in political strategy, as Mexican American activists self-consciously concentrated on mobilizing voters as an ethnic bloc (though almost exclusively within the Democratic party)" (Sin Fronteras 181). This is the first major shift and step in latino politics. The forming of some type of organization for the betterment of not only latino-Americans everywhere, but the other minorities too I believe. Since these groups were forming around the same era as Martin Luther King Jr. So with that said, this was indeed a success for latinos everywhere that they could band together under one cause to push for their rights. MAPA was the largest drive behind the latino-political movement at the start of the 1960's. MAPA had many hopes and aspirations to empower the Mexican Americans by …show more content…
By the 1970's the civil rights act had already been passed through congress giving everyone "equal" rights to everything in America. I mean "equal", that even though we now had legislation saying we would all have the same rights to pursue in the United States. The sad truth was we really didn't. These activists had met together to talk about then president Carter's plan on immigration reform. With the recently announced "immigration reform legislation, the conference provided dramatic. Evidence of the extent to which the immigration controversy had become a major civil rights issue in the 1970s" (Sin Fronteras 179). It was that this "new-legislation" reform was just and what the United States needed for immigration. In reality the latino conference managed to pull examples on why this new reform was discriminatory against not only latin-american citizens but aliens of Latin descent. There was such a unanimous negative response to the "Carter Plan by Mexican American community groups, elected officials, and virtually every major national civil rights and political advocacy organization was a dramatic departure from traditional Mexican American positions on the immigration issue (Sin Fronteras 179). So after all was said and done at the end of the day, I believe this movement was by far more successful in accomplishing the tasks it had