The Chicano Movement: Migration To Chicago

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Mexican-Americans and African-Americans started to move north to Chicago looking for jobs. This beget in public housing projects that just made the separation in Chicago deficient. Through WWI, most Mexican and African Americans has there home in the south, yet the insulation and prejudice made their living situation abhorrent. They looked north to Chicago looking for a place with more economic well off jobs, and less prejudice and insulation. Chicano is an other stint for Mexican-Americans. Mostly all of them comes from Mexico and went to Chicago. Generally, people saw then as unskilled laborers and treated them crudely. The Chicano Movement peaked over the late 1960s and early 1970s. Immigration was a huge concern, notably in the United States.
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