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Chicano movement  

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  • The Chicano civil rights movement, also referred to as El Movimiento, had its roots in the evolution of organizing and challenges to inequality dating from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. El Movimiento ran roughly from the post–World War II period through the mid-1970s. [Source: Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia; Chicano Movement]

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