The Civil Rights Movement is often associated historically with the push for African American equality in the United States and liberation from a socio-economic norm of suppression for Blacks around the country. The movement also had a significant impact on Latinos living in the United States at the time as well who also benefitted from the achievements of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. For Mexican Americans living in the United States however, they still found themselves in a difficult position of being non-white and thus still targets of discrimination and oppression. As a result, the struggle to remove themselves from the political and economic oppression would require a separate campaign to effect change for Hispanics in the United States.