Mexican American/Chicano History: Chicano Student Movement

(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
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Abstract / Summary: The 1960s was a time of change. The Black civil right movement, opposition to the war in Vietnam, student protests for more relevant classes, farm workers organizing unions, New Mexican farmers asserting ownership of public land, hippies advocating love were among the agents of change. In the midst of all of this, Mexican American students were going to college in larger numbers than ever before, many as the first one in their families to do so, and wondering where they fit into all of these changes. Drawing on the example of earlier Mexican American activists, such as those who organized to secure justice for the young men accused of the Sleepy Lagoon murders, or elected Edward Roybal to the Los Angeles City Council, they began to organize among themselves.
Field of Interest: Letters and Diaries
Content Type: Oral history
Format: Related Web resources
URL: https://csulb-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/206609
Publisher: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
Place Published / Released: California
Subject: Letters and Diaries, History, Ethnic groups, History, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, Mexico, North America, United States
Keywords and Translated Subjects: United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos