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I believe Mexican Americans have progressed massively over the years. There is now a Latino American on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. There will always be discrimination because we are taught to fear on another. Mexican Americans may have intimidated whites because they were a different color and spoke different languages. We now have Mexican Americans at our schools, churches, and workplaces. There are still employment discriminations and segregations. Mexican Americans tend to get paid less than the average white man. As this world becomes more diverse and cultures merge, we realize that we are not so different.

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-End segregation, discrimination, and stereotyping.
-Receive economic and political equality
-Cesar Chavez and the National Farm Workers Association started a boycott on grape growers that exploited their Latino and Hispanic workers.
-Latino and Hispanic activists also pushed educational institutions to include the contributions of Latinos and Hispanics in discussions of U.S. History. Latino-American and Mexican-American history departments opened at many major universities.
-The Latino and Hispanic communities raised their formalized  political activism with La Raza Unida Party.
-In 1975, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was extended to the Southwest guaranteeing Latino and Hispanic Americans the equal opportunity to register and vote.
http://knightpoliticalreporting.syr.edu/?civilhistoryessays=a-civil-rights-history-latinohispanic-americans

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The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools.

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On Cesar Chavez Avenue in Boyle Heights, California

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Mexican-American All Wars Memorial, Boyle Heights, California

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Mexican-American All Wars Memorial, Boyle Heights, California

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https://archive.org/details/clcop_000220
A monument honoring Mexican Americans who died fighting for the U.S.

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Mendez v. Westminster

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Gonzalo Mendez was born in Mexico in 1913. Him and his family moved to Westminster, California, in 1919.n 1945, when his children went to register for school, Gonzalo expected that they would be attending Westminster Main School, the same school that he had attended with other Mexican and Anglo children until he was forced to drop out to help support his family. Much to his surprise, when his children returned home, they informed him that they would have to attend the Hoover School, which was located in a different school district, and furthermore, all of the students there were Mexican or Mexican-American. Gonzalo spoke with the principal, the Westminster School Board, and eventually the Orange County School Board, but without success.On March 2, 1945, the attorney representing Mendez and the other plaintiffs filed a class action suit in a U.S. District Court not only on their behalf but also on behalf of some 5,000 other persons of “Mexican and Latin descent.” Judge Paul McCormick of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, Central Division ruled first that the segregation violated California’s own laws, but then he went on, writes Professor Philippa Strum, the resident senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, “to suggest a new interpretation of the federal equal protection clause.”
https://www.texasbar.com/civics/High%20School%20cases/mendez-v-westminster.html

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MEChA: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan.

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MEChA: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan.

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Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan.

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Mexicans were being treated unfairly even though it was America who made them Mexican-Americans.

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The Chicano Movement in Colorado

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Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.

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The Royal Road of the Interior Land

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"After prevailing the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the United States carved out what became the American Southwest and inherited approximately 80,000 mexicans. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo assured Mexicans in the United States "all the rights of citizens," but this agreement was continuously violated as Mexicans lost their lands and their political rights."

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"We have to understand that liberation comes from self-determination, and to start to use the tools of nationalism to win over our barrio brothers, to win over the brothers who are still believing that machismo means getting a gun and going to kill a communist in Vietnam because they've been jived about the fact that they will be accepted as long as they go get themselves killed for the gringo captain."

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Both African Americans and Mexican Americans faced similar problems and had similar goals in the 1960's. Suspicion rose and Mexican Americans were accused of not having American Citizenship no matter how many ancestors had lived in the United States. This was extremely ironic considering Puerto Ricans could only be officially regarded as Americans. Most Mexican Americans were rural farmers and migrant workers. After  the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, Mexican Americans felt promise and hope to have equal civil rights. As we know, they were still discriminated, segregated, and stereotyped although they were legal citizens. The most predominant discrimination was in education. Mexican Americans had lower levels of education than non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks. Their long and continuous history as labor migrants destined to jobs at the bottom of the economic hierarchy.
https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3846170/