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Article: Making of the Chicano movement revisited.(lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968)(Column)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- April 4, 1996
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Twenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools -- and, by day's end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.
The student strike's major purpose was to protest racist teachers and school policies by demanding classes on Mexican-American culture and history. Several hundred African-American students at Thomas Jefferson High School in South Central Los Angeles, after learning what happened, walked out ...