Mexican-American Voter Discrimination

To include one specific group into an entire voting population is a very difficult, long process, and requires people who are victim to discrimination to continue fighting their cause for decades, and it requires many flukes from many people who all need to do or say just the right thing at just the right moment in time. This is how the process was for the blacks, the women, and the youth of America, and the Mexican-Americans were no different.
Mexican-American voters faced many struggles in society, and the barriers that kept them from voting were one of these things. Some of the key people who led to the near equality that we know today are Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, who, in 1966, founded the "Crusade For Justice," and Cesar Chavez, who founded the "United Farm Workers Union."
There is still undeniable voter discrimination, but it has improved greatly, and I believe if a direct threat to the voting rights of Mexican-Americans (or any minority) is detected by either the government or the people, I have confidence it would be corrected immediately. Much of this is owed to the people I mentioned earlier, along with many others, who helped in the fight for voter equality. As the article states, "The work of these pioneering activists provided a base to mobilize Mexican Americans and increase their political power in the late twentieth and early twenty- first centuries."