Questions that need to be answered:
How did racism and segregation manifest against African Americans in the South and Mexican Americans in California? Were the perpetrators similar or different (for example law enforcement) and the types of discrimination (housing, education, employment)?
How did Martin Luther King Jr’s background and path to leadership differ from Cesar Chavez’s?
What role did children (people under 18) play in each of the respective civil rights movement? Why were children central to the civil rights struggles of African American and Mexican Americans?
What was the greatest victory of the African American civil rights struggle depicted in “No Easy Walk”? What was the most significant victory depicted in “Pride and Prejudice.””
1. To what extent did the Chicano/a civil rights struggle benefit from the example set by the African American civil rights struggle — leadership, rhetoric, strategies?
End your introduction with a response to the question about how much you think the African American struggle benefitted the Chicano/a Civil Rights Movement.
The conclusion is your thought on what you learned about historical change from studying these social movements.