During the years of 1950s through 1960s, there were some movements that fought for the necessary wants from different groups of people. For example the AfricanAmerican’s movement and the Brown Power (chicano) Movement fought for the fulfillment of those people. First at all, through this essay I want to discuss the similarities between these two movements. Firstly, both movements took similar methods of protest in order to fulfill their goals, such were the marches, boycotts and strikes. Since the time that the civil rights act of 1866 was passed by the congress, AfricanAmerican’s had to face many problems, mostly racial issues. Such as the Ku Klux Klan, a group of whites who mostly didn’t allow the right to vote for the blacks, and …show more content… This movement helped the Mexican immigrants and MexicanAmericans. Similarly, the Brown Power (Chicano) Movement used some methods that the AfricanAmerican used to succeed through the tyranny. For example the use of nonviolence, strikes and marches. The leader of this movement was Cesar Chavez a MexicanAmerican who in his childhood has to work in the fields, as a farm worker. Cesar knew the racism that existed in the owners, and the corruption of labor.When Cesar became adult he began to organize a movement to fight for the migrant rights. So in 1962, he organized the farm workers in a union which was know as National Farm Workers Association(.http://www.history.com/topics/cesarchavez) But this formation was not easy to do, because Chavez and his followers were intimidated by the owners of the fields, also they were constantly attacked by them, while they were persuading the farmers to join the movement. Cesar and the farmer workers financial the organization by themselves, they started collecting donations by the other workers(Cesar Chavez movie.)That later on, this organization Show More
