En colaboracion con Latina Voices, los periodistas de Radio Arte producieron esta pelicula a base de su trabajo durante la marcha.
By Alden Loury
Editor & Publisher
The Chicago Reporter
Today is a good day for a civil rights march.
News reports may refer to the May Day marches as “immigration” marches, but make no mistake about it—these marches are about fighting for civil rights.
The civil rights movement of the 20th century still lives on since, despite the election of the nation’s first black president, African Americans are still fighting to gain the full rights of citizenship in the United States. In the 21st century, that movement has now expanded to include Latinos, America’s second-largest racial minority, who are also in search of the full rights of citizenship in the United States—immigration reform is simply a means to that end.
The participants of the 21st century marches might look a little different than those who participated in the previous century’s marches, but the similarities are too strong to ignore. Their cause, their passion and their obstacles bear striking resemblances to one another.
There are other linkages, as well.
In Chicago, during the height of the 20th century’s movement, the racial divide between white and black became quite evident. And today a similar divide is forming between white and Latino. The previous century’s restrictive covenants, designed to keep blacks out of Chicago’s all-white neighborhoods, closely resemble the housing ordinances and other policies restricting the movement of Latinos to some suburban communities.
Check here for more of The Chicago Reporter’s long history of immigration reporting.
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