'Mexican Americans and the American Dream'

'Life, Liberty, and the hunting of Happiness a phrase cognize throughout American history, had diminutive import to the Mexican American existence, until by and by the eddy of terra firma struggle II. nifty delve would gestate it that in that respect was a considerable difference in the treatment of the Mexican American population, before, during and subsequently correctts such as The Great De librateion, World War II, and even with the Presidential elections of two John F. Kennedy and the Great Society press himself Lyndon Baines Johnson. This essay is an guarantee to grapple occurrences such as the sleepy-eyed Lagoon teddy, the infamous Zoot Suit Riots case in which more than 17 Mexican American spring chicken were fraudulently accuse of committing a heinous abomination, the Mendez case in which a pose fought valiantly not only his daughters rights to seem a desegregated train system, but the rights of every(prenominal) Mexican American born citizen to have the same. With the emergence and phylogenesis of advocate groups such as MALDEF, LULAC and the American G.I. Forum, some quantify after the year of 1945 the Mexican American population began to see entertain in their feel from a rising perspective. \nAlthough countless opportunities would farm for the Chicano population, tension with rightfulness enforcement seemed to be at an all time high. During the years of 1942, tempers flared as 17 Chicano early days were incriminate of first-degree send off of a new(a) Mexican American boy. Race and prejudice would prove to be more than the abnegation could handle, as the accused were not allowed a change of tog to upkeep their appearance, or even haircuts for grooming. The figure out the media and printing press had and its ability to command and garner viewing audience attention, worked against the accused, as umpteen were convicted of a crime they did not commit. Discrimination, inequality, and stereotypes were naug ht new to the Mexican American population, so when a make do broke in May of 1943, betwixt several servicemen and the Chicano jejuneness (wearing what w...'