Who?
Born in Guatemala, social activist who unionized workers, led strikes, and created the first national Latino civil rights assembly in 1939, she was deported in 1950
Who is Luisa Moreno?
When did Fidel Castro overthrow the Cuban dictator and establish a Marxist, socialist state in Cuba?
When is 1959?
Militant Argentine revolutionary who assisted Castro in Cuba and was killed attempting a similar revolt in Bolivia.
Who is Ernesto "Che" Guevara?
Labor union of farm workers that used nonviolent tactics, including a workers' strike and a consumer boycott of table grapes.
What is United Farm Workers (UFW)?
In 1969, a Young Lord led protest in Spanish Harlem in the summer where garbage in the neighborhood was set on fire in an attempt to draw attention to the inequality of trash/sanitation services.
What is the Garbage Offensive?
He was the last appointed governor of Puerto Rico.
Who is Rexford Tugwell?
When did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen?
When is 1962?
Who founded the Young Lords?
Who is José "Cha Cha" Jiménez?
This Puerto Rican organization that pushed American culture on young Puerto Ricans in the U.S.
What is Hispanic Young Adult Association (HYAA)?
An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba, sponsored by the United States, and its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in 1961.
What is Bay of Pigs?
First Mexican immigrant to receive medal of honor, in Sept. 1945, was refused service at a café and then the owner beat him with a bat, was then arrested because of bad press...
Who is Marcario García?
This law aimed to confiscate land from landlords and redistribute it to landless peasants.
What is Agrarian Reform Law of 1959?
This person taught farmworkers how to become citizens and how to vote; earned more money to buy food and clothing for them; worked with another prominent activist to form the National Farm Workers Association.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
Founded in 1920, this organization served everyone in Central America with the goal to try and create on single nation.
What is the Central American Unionist Club?
What was Hernández v. Texas?
In 1954, Pete Hernández went to a bar and was verbally insulted for having a limp, Hernández killed him, he was trialed before an all Anglo jury, his lawyer Gustavo "Gus" García argued that MX were treated as a "class apart", court ruled that Mexican- Americans were entitled to protection under the 14th amendment.
Decorated soldier shot by Japanese soldier, in Jan. 1949, his wife wanted him buried in Three Rivers, her request was denied, after bad press, they tried to claim she was disloyal.
Who is Félix Longoria?
A CIA operation, Operation Mongoose, backed by President Kennedy that used covert operation against President Fidel Castro's government in Cuba in efforts to overthrow the communist government in Cuba.
When is 1961?
Central figure in Cuban terrorism in the US, bombs in Miami in 1973-1976, and his crimes were pardoned by Bush in 1990.
Who is Orlando Bosch?
In 1961, founded by Antonia Pantoja, provided services that helped PR in educated (tutoring, classes on PR history, résumés)
What is ASPIRA?
In July 1997, officers targeted anyone that "looked undocumented" in southern Arizona.
What is Operation Restoration?
Puerto Rican freedom fighter imprisoned for firing bullets into the House of Representatives chambers in 1954, sent back to PR by President Carter after serving 50 years.
Who is Lolita Lebron?
A series of riots, known as the Zoot Suit Riots, that originated in Los Angeles between white servicemen stationed in the cities and Latinos.
When is June 3-9, 1943?
An activist who led a struggle to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners, started with legal protests but, when these seemed to get nowhere, held marches, mass demonstrations and camp-ins on National Forest land.
Who is Reies López Tijerina?
This organization fought for political rights and educated poor migrant workers beginning in 1947 in California.
What is Community Service Organization?
In 1954, a government program to roundup and deport as many as one million illegal Mexican migrant workers in the United States, was promoted in part by the Mexican government and reflected growing concerns about non-European immigration to America.
What is Operation "Wetback"?