Whereas the term Chicano/Chicana was previously used to insinuate inferiority but was later transformed into a term of empowerment, used to embrace and uplift the Mexican-American identity; Whereas the Chicano/Chicana Movement, or El Movimiento, in the 1960s advocated for the social and political empowerment of Mexican Americans; Whereas Chicano/Chicanas have contributed toward significant technological and scientific advancements in the United States; Whereas physicist Albert Vinicio Báez coinvented the x-ray reflection microscope in 1948; Whereas Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic female astronaut and the second female director of the Johnson Space Center; Whereas prominent Chicano/Chicana leaders spearheaded the fight for labor rights and education reform; Whereas, in 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that exclusion of eligible jurors due to their ancestry of national origin violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment in the case of Hernandez v. Texas, which was the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period ; Whereas, in 1946, the Supreme Court issued another landmark ruling in Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County that declared school segregation of Mexican Americans illegal; Whereas John J. Herrera, an experienced Houston trial lawyer and 21st president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, was the attorney who won both of those landmark Supreme Court cases; Whereas Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez are prominent figures in the labor movement and advocates for workers’, immigrants’, and women’s rights; Whereas Ruben Salazar, a significant civil rights advocate, was the first Mexican-American columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and the first journalist to shed light on the Chicano/Chicana community through mainstream media