Word: formful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reform was the way he was treated as a man," recalls his brother Richard. "We always talked about change, but how could we go about it?" Cesar Chavez went about it by working with the C.S.O. among Mexican Americans for ten years. Then, in 1962, he left to form a farm workers' union...
Chicano: Mexican American. A shortened, corrupted form of Mexicano, with the first syllable dropped and the "x" pronounced like ch in cheese, in the fashion of Mexico's Chihuahua Indians...
...Delano's west side resounded with cries of "Viva la huelga!" "Viva la causa! Viva la union!" The N.F.W.A. and the A.W.O.C. merged two years later to form the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, headed by Chavez...
...Raza: the race, meaning all Mexicans and Mexican Americans, and derived from the mystical theory of the 19th century philosopher, Jose Vasconcelos, that people of mixed race will inherit the earth. At best, it is a rallying cry betokening a mild form of cultural nationalism; at worst, it connotes outright racism...
...across the country, thousands of Communist Party members have found another effective form of dissent: they have stopped paying their party dues...