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During the mid-20th century, there have been multiple groups and individuals, including African Americans and Latino Americans, who have challenged the limits of their civil liberties through civil rights movements and have been successful in achieving some equal rights. For Latino Americans, two of these leaders were Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, who organized and led a national pilgrimage from Delano to Sacramento. In the film "Pride and Prejudice," it states, "At a meeting in San Francisco in 1962, Cesar Chavez approached her with an idea that would alter the course of their lives. Huerta: He said, ‘You and I have to organize a union.’ But a serious obstacle stood in the way of creating a farm workers union: the Bracero program, a government

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