'Mexican Americans and the American Dream'

'Life, Liberty, and the sideline of Happiness a phrase cognize throughout American history, had diminutive message to the Mexican American macrocosm, until later on the bust of populace struggle II. prominent indicate would nominate it that thither was a big difference in the treatment of the Mexican American population, before, during and after steadyts such(prenominal) as The Great De urgeion, World War II, and even with the Presidential elections of some(prenominal) John F. Kennedy and the Great Society prophesy himself Lyndon Baines Johnson. This essay is an attempt to grapple occurrences such as the sleepy Lagoon typesetters case, the infamous Zoot Suit Riots case in which to a greater extent than 17 Mexican American jejuneness were fraudulently criminate of committing a wicked abhorrence, the Mendez case in which a obtain fought valiantly not only his daughters rights to flow a desegregated aim system, but the rights of both Mexican American born citizen to have the same. With the emergence and phylogeny of advocate groups such as MALDEF, LULAC and the American G.I. Forum, some succession after the year of 1945 the Mexican American population began to see time value in their spirit from a spic-and-span perspective. \nAlthough countless opportunities would educate for the Chicano population, tension with faithfulness enforcement seemed to be at an all time high. During the years of 1942, tempers flared as 17 Chicano juvenile were accuse of first-degree take of a young Mexican American boy. Race and warp would prove to be more than the disaffirmation could handle, as the accused were not allowed a change of vesture to upkeep their appearance, or even haircuts for grooming. The trance the media and printing press had and its ability to disputation and garner viewing audience attention, worked against the accused, as numerous were convicted of a crime they did not commit. Discrimination, inequality, and stereotypes were nil new to the Mexican American population, so when a advertize broke in May of 1943, between several servicemen and the Chicano young (wearing what w...'