6th Annual WML Academic Symposium

Time: 12:30 PM
Rm 303
Presenter(s): Sita Chandra
Title: (Spanish) The Fight for the Latinos of the United States in the 60´s (Presented in Spanish)
Developed under the guidance of Dr. Rene Ibarra , Spanish

"In 1976, Los Lobos, a Mexican-American band, wrote a song called “Strike in General” during the Chicano cultural renaissance and it expresses the emotions and struggles of the Chicano farm workers in the Southwestern and Western part of the United States. Through the song, “Strike in General”, we identified the struggles of the farm workers in Texas and California. They fought for basic rights such as decent housing, decent wages, and decent representation by the union. We see through the agricultural workers the power of a strike and the beginning of their fight for their rights in the United States.