Unit 6: Civil Rights and Latinx Immigrants

Questions:

• What are some ways that Latinx people have participated in the struggle for civil rights? What are several important civil rights issues for this community?

Materials:

“10 Myths About Immigration” (article, Teaching Tolerance)
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2011/ten-myths-about-immigration

“Mi Historia” (PBS documentary, several episodes, on PBS.org)
“Latino Americans” (PBS General timeline of history with video clips/photos)
http://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/timeline/

PBS Lessons on Latino Hispanic Americans to explore: try for about 2-3 for your grade
https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/latino-americans/

Civil Rights History: Latino/Hispanic Americans (BRIEF overview)
https://knightpoliticalreporting.syr.edu/?civilhistoryessays=a-civil-rights-history-latinohispanic-americans

Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath (novel)
YA novel, Queer Latina protagonist

“Seventy Years Later: The Zoot Suit Riots and the Complexity of Youth Culture”
(Article on gender and silence in Zoot Suit riots)
https://www.kcet.org/history-society/seventy-years-later-the-zoot-suit-riots-and-the-complexity-of-youth-culture

Other: A Brief History of American Xenophobia (video, 8 mins, Densho)
https://youtu.be/t-FeDQfSgGM

Cesar Chavez 
“The Story of Cesar Chavez” (United Farm Workers)
https://ufw.org/research/history/story-cesar-chavez/

The Farm Worker Movement (PBS.org, video, 45 minutes)
https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/df492426-ffec-4eef-bed1-caca19c08b41/the-farm-worker-movement/

“Viva La Causa,” documentary on the 1960s grape boycott, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta (40 minute documentary) https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/viva-la-causa/