"The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education. This movement, which involved thousands of students in the Los Angeles area, was identified as ‘the first major mass protest against racism undertaken by Mexican-Americans in the history of the United States.’ …”
W – East L.A. walkouts, W – Sal Castro, W – David Sanchez (activist), W – Vickie Castro, W – Carlos Montes, W – La Raza (newspaper)
YouTube: Yo Soy Chicano: The East LA Student Walkouts of 1968, The 1968 East L.A. Student Walkouts (y Ruben P.C.)
Nearly two full years before the walkouts, eighteen demonstrators picketed in front of Lincoln High School in 1966 to protest against the lack of counseling services and educational opportunities for Latino students.
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