Overview
For the Latinx community, the fight for social justice is an ongoing battle. It's important to understand that social justice is a vast and intersectional movement that is hard to conceptualize on one website page, therefore, we will only cover the tip of the iceberg. On this page, we will focus on the injustices within education, labor, and undocumented immigrants in the United States. By expanding and analyzing specific State/Federal court cases, injustice movements, and the CT Latinx community's fight against injustice, we can begin to implement these lenses and experiences into current social injustices/events, widening our understanding of Latinx issues and successes.
Unit Objectives
- Name and identify various movements and organizations Latinx activists have participated in throughout US history.
- Locate key activists within the timeline of US history, especially within Black and Latinx US history.
- Identify the different strategies activists use and apply them to hypothetical scenarios.
- Understand how Latinx social justice activists have shaped public policy in the United States, especially within the local reality of Connecticut.
Topics
A Brief History of Latinx Activism
Useful Resources
List of Latinx activists