During the 1960s many movements arose such as the counterculture movement, the hippie movement, the environmental movement, the SCLC, the SNCC, the Native American movement, women's civil rights, the United Farm Workers Movement: Cesar Chavez Farm Workers, etc. During the 1960s American culture began to change due to 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 job opportunities. The United Farm Workers movement was led primarily by Dolores Huerta, Gilbert Padilla, and Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez coordinated the protests and was the 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 the most effective. Cesar Chavez said: “There is no defeat in nonviolence.” Before the United Farm Workers movement, immigrants were not allowed to join unions and other programs that provided benefits. The Bracero program helped provide farm owners with Mexican agricultural workers. With the quality of the work environment, increased pay, and other job opportunities, Mexicans would feel more comfortable living in the United States and would feel as if moving to the United States would be more financially beneficial than staying in Mexico. During the late 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s the immigrant population in the United States would grow exponentially because the UFW fought for increased pay, better working conditions, and other employment benefits to be offered to immigrants. With the United Farm Workers Movement, and the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, Mexican Americans and other immigrants were g...... at the center of the paper...... their fight for rights would also be successful. The spark in 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 obtained jobs by providing higher wages, better working conditions, health benefits, minimizing segregation within the workplace, pension plans, and even forming a credit union specifically for agricultural workers and immigrants. These were all factors that contributed to the increase in immigrants to the United States. (As life began to improve for immigrants to the United States, others thought the same might happen to them.) Many immigrants saw this as an opportunity to form a new and improved lifestyle. Even today the number of immigrants continues to grow and their lives are getting better and better.