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Marc Simon Rodriguez | A Movement Made of "Young Mexican Americans Seeking Change": Critical Citizenship, Migration, and the Chicano Movement in Texas and Wisconsin, 1960–1975 | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3 | The History Cooperative
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A MOVEMENT MADE OF "YOUNG MEXICAN AMERICANS SEEKING CHANGE": CRITICAL CITIZENSHIP, MIGRATION, AND THE CHICANO MOVEMENT IN TEXAS AND WISCONSIN, 1960–19751

MARC SIMON RODRIGUEZ



This history of the Chicano civil rights movement blends the histories of Crystal City, Texas, and Wisconsin, and their interconnection across the interstate migrant stream. This revisionist account presents a corrective to traditional one-place-bound community studies common within Chicano Movement historiography as it argues for the centrality of migrant social networks in the development of Chicano activism after 1963.


 
    Jesus Salas (front left) and Salvador Sanchez (front right) lead a march leaving Wautoma for Madison, WI, 15 August 1966. Photo courtesy of David Giffey.
 
 
      "THEY SAY THERE IS NO DISCRIMINATION, but we have only to look around us to know the truth. We look at the schools ... the houses we live in ... the few opportunities ... the dirt in the streets ... and we know." 2 José Angel Gutiérrez spoke these words on 1 April 1963, to a crowd of between 1,500 and 3,000 Mexican Americans assembled in Crystal City, Texas, to support the candidacy of "Los Cinco," an all Mexican American slate for city council. Surrounded by a contingent of armed Texas Rangers, this group of interstate farm workers and their children held signs that read, "Vote for all 5." Under the glow of a single light bulb, this "shirt-sleeved crowd" of migrant workers, or Cristaleños, and their children came together as citizens in support of Mexican American political participation. 3 . . .
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