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The Chicano Movement emerged in the 1960s in response to discrimination faced by Mexican Americans. It had three main components: the Chicano youth movement fought for equal rights in education, the farmworkers movement advocated for better wages and working conditions, and MAYO organized Mexican American youth. The movement achieved greater civil rights protections but Mexican Americans still face issues around immigration and discrimination today.
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- 10. Students were also suffering lots of discrimination besides having few rights, which it created tension.
- 12. It still exist today, and does the same as it always has/
- 15. The workers suffered laboriously working long, tough hours for little money that probably did not support their families.
- 18. It created the rights that mexican-Americans have today
- 19. It also erased much discrimination that existed, although there still exists a lot of discrimination today in this area
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