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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-03 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 382
Pages: 382
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-21 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminat
Language: en
Pages: 505
Pages: 505
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: NYU Press
In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who w
Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-28 - Publisher: University of Nevada Press
In 1968 over 10,000 Chicana/o high school students in East Los Angeles walked out of their schools in the first major protest against racism and educational ine
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-26 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Strikes, boycotts, rallies, negotiations, and litigation marked the efforts of Mexican-origin community members to achieve educational opportunity and oppose di
