Mexican Americans and the American Dream

Life, Liberty, and the followers of Happiness a vocabulary known throughout American history, had diminutive meaning to the Mexican American population, until after the cycle of solid ground War II. massive debate would have it that there was a vast disparity in the treatment of the Mexican American population, before, during and after events much(prenominal)(prenominal) as The majuscule Depression, World War II, and even with the presidential elections of both John F. Kennedy and the Great Society advocate himself Lyndon Baines Johnson. This assay is an attempt to grapple occurrences such as the Sleepy lagoon occurrence, the infamous Zoot Suit Riots case in which more than 17 Mexican American offspring were fraudulently accuse of committing a heinous crime, the Mendez case in which a father fought valiantly not only his daughters rights to calculate a desegregated school system, scarce the rights of every Mexican American born citizen to have the same. With the even t and development of advocate groups such as MALDEF, LULAC and the American G.I. Forum, one-time(prenominal) after the year of 1945 the Mexican American population began to come across value in their breeding from a new perspective. \nAlthough immeasurable opportunities would arise for the Chicano population, tension with legality enforcement seemed to be at an wholly time high. During the years of 1942, tempers flared as 17 Chicano jejuneness were accused of first-degree murder of a juvenile Mexican American boy. washout and bias would prove to be more than the defense could handle, as the accused were not allowed a change of clothes to aliment their appearance, or even haircuts for grooming. The set the media and printing press had and its expertness to sway and garner viewing audience attention, worked against the accused, as many were convicted of a crime they did not commit. Discrimination, inequality, and stereotypes were nada new to the Mexican American populati on, so when a make do broke in whitethorn of 1943, between several servicemen and the Chicano youth (wearing what w...