During the 1960s, many movements developed, such as the counterculture movement, the hippie movement, the environmental movement, SCLC, SNCC, the Native American movement, women's civil rights, the United Farm Workers movement, etc. During the 1960s, American culture began to change because of these movements. The United Farm Workers movement, for example, fought for the rights of Mexican Americans. Their goal in the 1960s was to achieve decent working conditions and more employment opportunities. The United Farm Workers movement was led primarily by Dolores Huerta, Gilbert Padilla, and Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez coordinated the protests and was president of the United Farm Workers movement at the time. Like Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez believed in peaceful protests and believed that boycotts and strikes were most effective. Cesar Chavez said: “There is no such thing as defeat through non-violence.” Before the United Farm Workers movement, immigrants were not allowed to join unions or other programs that offered benefits. The Bracero program helped provide farm owners with Mexican farm workers. With the quality of the work environment, increasing wages, and other job opportunities, Mexicans would feel more comfortable living in the United States and would feel that moving to the United States would be more financially advantageous than staying in Mexico. In the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the immigrant population in the United States would grow exponentially because the UFW fought for higher wages, better working conditions. work and other social benefits offered to immigrants. With the United Farm Workers Movement, and the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, Mexican Americans and other immigrants were in the middle of paper... Their fight for rights would also be successful. The spark of the number of immigrants entering the United States began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. People came to the United States because the United Farm Workers movement secured jobs offering higher wages, better working conditions, health benefits, minimizing segregation within the work environment, retirement plans and even formed a credit union specifically for agricultural workers and immigrants . These are all factors that have contributed to the increase in the number of immigrants in the United States. (As life for immigrants in the United States began to improve, others thought the same thing might happen to them). Many immigrants saw this as an opportunity to forge a new and improved lifestyle. Even today, the number of immigrants continues to increase and their lives are getting better and better..