The 1960s encompassed many different movements that sought the same goal of achieving equality, equality in the means of: political, economic and social equality. During this era, two similar movements emerged that shared the same ideologies: the Chicano and the Black Power Movement. Both shared a similar ideology that outlined their movement, which was the call for self-determination. The similar experiences they had endured, such as the mistreatment and abuse of power enacted by the dominant Anglo race, helped shape these ideologies. Despite their similar ideology, they differed in how they achieved this, gaining political participation or going to the extreme of using force to achieve their goals and moving on to literally rule themselves. Although the Chicano and Black Power movements sought self-determination, they differed in the tactics used to achieve this goal. The Chicano and Black Power movement's call for self-determination emerged due to broken promises made to them by the American government. After the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe was supposed to provide Mexican Americans with protection of their land and certain rights such as education, citizenship, and freedom to practice religion. The government has never kept these promises. Instead, Mexican-Americans were forced to assimilate into American culture, their land was taken away from them, and they were not recognized as citizens. Promises made to the African-American community by the American government were also left unacknowledged. Before the era of the civil rights movement, African-Americans had already been struggling under white power since the ... middle of the paper ... Vol 27, No.4. Gulford Press, (1963): 415-432, http//www.jstor.org/stable/40400980Grandjeat, Charles Yves. "Nationalism, history and myth: the masks of Aztlan", Confluencia, Vol6, n. 1 (Fall 1990): 19-32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27921957McCutcheon, Priscilla. “Returning Home to Our Rightful Place: The Nation of Islam and the Farms of Muhammad,” Elsevier (2013): 61-70 doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.05.001Moraga, Cherrie. “Queer Aztlan: the reform of the Chicano tribe,” in The Color of Privilege 1996, edited by Aida Hurtado. Ann Arbor: University Michigan Press, 1996.Munoz, Carlos. Youth identity, power: the Chicano movement. London: Verso, 1989. Ogbar, Jeffrey. Radical black power politics and African American identity. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 2004, 124.Pinon, Fernando. Myths and reality: dynamics of ethnic politics. New York: Vantage Press, 1978.