Chicano Movement For Beginners by Maceo Montoya

Author:Maceo Montoya
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: For Beginners LLC

STUDENT WALKOUTS AND THE BROWN BERETS

On the morning of March 3, 1968, students at Lincoln High School in East Los Angeles walked out of their classes. Later in the day, some 10,000 Chicano students from area high schools joined them, crippling the largest school district in the country and bringing the full weight of law enforcement against them. The students carried signs that read “Chicano Power” and “Viva la Revolución” (Long Live the Revolution), but their demands were hardly radical. Led by Sal Castro, a Lincoln High School teacher, they called for the elimination of discriminatory school policies and racist teachers; they sought a curriculum that addressed Mexican American history and culture; and they wanted more Mexican American faculty members and administrators. With high school dropout rates near 50%, students were calling out a school system that had failed them, rather than that they had failed.

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