Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present

by Julie Figueroa, Anita Tijerina Revilla, Margarita Berta-Avila, et al.

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 inequality staged by Mexican Americans in the United States. They ignited the Mexican-American civil rights movement, which opened the doors to higher education and equal opportunity in employment for Mexican Americans and other Latinos previously excluded. Marching Students is a collaborative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087417841X
• ISBN13: 9780874178418
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"