Community
What social service organization was formed when local activists and community members occupied the old Beacon Hill School in Seattle?
El Centro de La Raza
What occurs from the late 1960s to the early 1990s that impacts future demographic trends with the Chicanx & Latinx community in the Pacific Northwest and in the U.S. as a whole?
A. Increased migration from Mexico beginning in the late 1960s
B. Devaluation of the Mexican Peso and economic turmoil after 1982
C. U.S. involvement in the Central American Civil Wars
D. all options
D. all options
What year was the first Brown Berets group (Yakima Valley Chapter) organized in Washington State?
1968
What was the name of the court case filed with the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington State’s support in 2012 that argued that the City of Yakima’s at-large election system diluted Chicanx & Latinx votes?
Montes vs City of Yakima
Two student organizers from the YVCCA were inspired to begin working on farmworker issues when they traveled to California in 1966. Who did they meet with down in California?
Cesar Chavez
The Central American Solidarity Movement and the Sanctuary Movement were responses to which U.S. government policies in the 1980s?
A. Deportation of Central American refugees
B. U.S. Intervention in Central American Civil Wars
C. Funding of “Counter-revolutionary” groups that terrorized non-combatant civilians
D. all options
D. all options
Which legislation, passed in 1986, provided amnesty for undocumented workers while simultaneously bolstering immigration restriction through an increase in funding to the Border Patrol and the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS)?
The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
What two community organizations, formed in Washington State in 1967, are considered the first to develop during the “Movimiento” era?
The United Farm Workers Cooperative and the Mexican American Federation
The “May Day March for Immigrant & Workers Rights” in Seattle is one of the oldest continuously running “May Day” marches that centers Latinx immigrant workers. As of 2024, how many years has this march been continuously held?
25 years
Which community clinic was formed in Western Washington by former members of the Seattle Brown Berets?
SeaMar Community Health Centers
The Young Chicanos for Community Action are a youth group that originated in East Los Angeles in 1967. The group established a chapter in the Yakima Valley and another in Seattle when members or the chapter are recruited to the University of Washington. Known for their distinctive headgear, what was the more commonly referred to name for this youth organization?
The Brown Berets
Which two independent farmworker unions form in Oregon and Washington, respectively in the mid-1980s?
The United Farmworkers of Washington State, and PCUN
On which day did the University of Washington’s Black Student Union (BSU) occupy the University President’s office to demand the establishment of a Black Studies Program and the increase in material resources to recruit more students of marginalized backgrounds?
May 20th, 1968
What three counties in Washington State have the highest proportion of Chicanx & Latinx voters?
Yakima, Franklin, Adams
As the UW BSU fanned out across the State of Washington to recruit students of color in the summer of 1968, they recruited 35 ethnic Mexican students, mostly from the Yakima Valley. What was the name of the organization that these new students formed at the University of Washington?
The United Mexican American Students (UMAS)
What was the name of multicultural solidarity effort that helped support the occupation of the Beacon Hill School in Seattle in the early 1970s?
The Third World Peoples' Coalition
From 1990 to 2018, there are increasing numbers of new Latinx migrants settling in larger numbers in the Great Plains and in the Southeast. What are two factors that lead to this demographic shift in these two geographic locations?
Fortification of the border, anti-immigrant legislation in the southwest
Community members, aided by UW students occupied the old Beacon Hill School in Seattle after pretending tour the facility for possible purchase. On which date did the occupation of the building begin?
October 11, 1972
Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Latinx community members in Washington State counted as 31% of total cases, which far outpaces the 13% of the population share that the Latinx community represents in the state. What are three factors that may explain this disproportional impact?
Jobs on the front lines, poverty, food insecurity, housing, testing and healthcare, no open space
Locally, the Brown Berets in Yakima and Seattle organized for better conditions for the Chicanx community in Washington State. What are two areas that they focused their campaigns on?
Education, poverty, healthcare
In which town in Central Washington was the United Farmworker’s Cooperative established?
Toppenish, WA
Gloria Rivera, Graciela Gonzalez, Estela Ortega, and Theresa Aragon de Shepro were prominent activists in Seattle’s Chicanx community in the early 1970s. Which key project that endures to the present day did they participate in?
The creation of El Centro de La Raza
The Northwest Chicano Radio Network began operating in 1976 with Spanish language radio news broadcasts. Although the effort to create a chain of radio newscasters in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, the organization was successful in creating Radio KDNA in Granger, Washington. What year did the station go on the radio airwaves?
1979
What weather-related condition in the 21st Century have served as a push factor from community of origin for many Central American migrants?
Drought, climate change
What was the name of the legislation signed into law by the Clinton Presidential Administration in 1996?
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act