Word: mexican-american
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...Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges took on the job of providing an overview from the state government and community leaders. Martin Sullivan, recently arrived from Montreal, went into the East Los Angeles barrios to distill the Mexican-American way of life-and found the Chicanos strikingly similar in mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges...
...vinifera, has become the symbol of the four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers. For more than a year now, table grapes have been the object of a national boycott that has won the sympathy and support of many Americans ?and the ire of many others. The strike is widely known as la causa, which has come to represent not only a protest against working conditions among California grape pickers but the wider aspirations of the nation's Mexican-American minority as well. La causa's magnetic champion and the country's most prominent...
...Mexican Americans proud to be Mexican Americans. Chavez must be given credit, I think, for really starting the Mexican-American civil rights movement." Ironically, mechanization hastened by unionization may eventually diminish Chavez's farm-labor base?but it will not slow the momentum of la causa...
...considerable transformation in the American memory and conscience. Few today recall Kennedy as the abrasive prosecutor, aggressive politician, and outspoken advocate. The reputation that lingers is one he went far toward creating during the last few months of his life: war critic, champion of the black and the Mexican-American, crusader for the very young, the very old, and all those who have been shunted aside from social and economic progress. His murder gave a new poignancy-and a new political legitimacy-to the people and the causes he sponsored and sheltered. "His death," said Hubert Humphrey recently, "may very...
...black schools, the pupils are rapidly falling behind in their studies. Goaded by the murder of Martin Luther King last year, the Denver school board sought a drastic remedy: make each Denver school reflect the overall ethnic composition of the city's 96,000 pupils-65% white, 20% Mexican-American and 15% Negro...