LA Thirteen 1
- Chicano students in East Los Angeles to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions
- Students were forbidden from speaking Spanish in class or from using the restrooms during their lunchtime
- some 20,000 teenagers took to the streets
- The school taught so that Mexican- American history was denied or ignored
- Steered them toward labor and away from colleges
- Chicano Movement
- The student walkouts occurred in Denver and East LA of 1968
- The Movement....
- Addressed negative stereotypes
- in mass media
- the American consciousness
- discrimination in public and private institutions
- Got rights
- restoration of land grants to farm workers' rights
- enhanced education
- political rights
- awareness of collective history of Mexican-Americans