How a 1968 Student Protest Fueled a Chicano Rights Movement | Retro Report 

Thank you to all those veteranos that stood up for yourself and future generations of chicanos

Things like "conspiracy to disrupt the schools" is just another way of saying "You don't have the right to free speech or protest"

They Shall Never, Ever Deprive US of our Culture, our Dignity and our Pride! 🇲🇽🇲🇽

Muchas Gracias professor Castro, Cesar Chavez and all the raza for giving us our culture back and more rights for our future generations!! VÍVAAA LA RAZA!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

Thank you for keeping Chicano history alive!

An excellent new summary-video of an important chapter in the history of civil and Chicano rights. We will continue to share this history with students at Universities and secondary schools. Thank you and se puede to Retro Report and producer Victor Cuoto!

My third grade elementary school teacher made fun of my last name. In fact, he made it into a song and sang it in front of the class, accompanied with his guitar. The whole class laughed with delight. As one of few Latinos in my school, I was bullied, beaten up, and constantly ridiculed. The teachers did nothing. And I couldn't go home and complain as teachers were to be respected. So I dealt with it from elementary school into middle school and it was horrendous. 😪

never want this history to be forgotten, it's important it isn't

My mom was a proud brown barret..I can remember her with others at rallys

Beautiful video!

Thank you and all power

thank you!

Right on!

Awesome! I never knew this. I live here on the Northern Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, NM. Its always inspiring to learn US history like this. And your right sir there is still a lot of inequality but it is getting better. I will be graduating in May 2024. I will be the 2nd college graduate in my family!!

CHICANO POWER ALL THE WAY !!!! WE ARE NOW THE BIGGEST MINORITY IN THE COUNTRY WITH A HUGE LATINO VOTE NOW. WE CAN MAKE A HUGE IMPACT AT THE POLLS. SO GO OUT AND VOTE

THIS should be mandatory for all west coast public schools. I was NEVER taught this history as a hispano in california.

I was in third grade in 1968 and I was bullied spit on and ridiculed for the way you dressed or spoke you were singled out. There have been changes and I didn’t let that stop me as an adult I’m successful in my life

I'm 29 and I experienced this same thing in a middle school I went to where it was the main majority of white kids a few Hispanics and Asians. I'd get into a lot of fights with the older whites because I was brown and poor.

History Repeating itself in America this Roevember!

I wonder if the walkouts were in some way connected to the student uprising in Europe in 1968, or if it was purely inspired by the Civil Rights and anti-war movement?

Chicano and I’m brown and proud

Hello I'm trying to get the word out about a Mexican American CHiCANO running for Congress name Tim Sanchez if he wins he will be the first ever to represent Oakland CA in Congress he has a website so if anybody wants to Donate to him please Do thank you gracias

My mom went to Lincoln high..she wore her barret proudly

1975 Downey east middle school 6th grad to 9th grade , I remember teachers always telling me to sit in the rear of the class room. I remember Calvin Chung, we would make fun of the students up front on English and math class. The teacher would yel at the white kids and she would say, those kids in the back are going to work for you. I remember 2012 to 2020. I worked in Jeffersonville indiana the birth place of the KKK.. I meet ex-Klan members which they knew what they did was wrong, as if that teacher was there, if she was alive. I then worked in Shepardville Kentucky which Donald trump was elected , remember Walmart a lady telling me to go back? I asked where Mexico .. Wow, if felt like I was in Downey Cal 1970. Well, today.. Chicano Beverly Hills Downey California , I speak Spanglish with family and friends and work and bus suites, English only.

JUST REMEMBER OUR CULTURE IS 1000S.OF YEARS OLD HERMANOS MEXICANAMERICANS OUR CULTURE ALWAYS SAVE US DON'T EVER LET IT FADE AWAY FROM YOUR HEARTS. THE AZTECS, MAYAS , TOTONACA, ZAPOTECA ,MIXTECA OLMECA ETC.ETC.LIVE IN US WE ARE THEIR DECEDENT'S.

This is so beautiful🥲

Viva la raza mexicana, vivan los chicanos brown pride

Que viva la raza 💪🏽💯🇲🇽

Sadly, we are often still left out of the conversation. The educational system still leaves out Latino voices, latino stories and history. Schools and administrators fail to advocate for these students. The media shows little interest in our stories, and Hollywood barely glances at the latino community, its interested in our money, not our stories.

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I was in the 4th grade I remember my dad taking us to eat tacos and see what was going on At laguna Park with in an hour the helicopters started shouting with their loud speakers. This is an illegal assembly everybody, please disperse then here comes the LAPD the sheriffs shooting tear gas at everybody. My dad grabbed me and my siblings, and we ran for the hills.im now 63 years old and i marched at the 50 th moratorium

HOLY TURTLE ISLAND 🌎..WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE 💰

HOLY TURTLE ISLAND WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE 💰

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Danng Sal Castro fortold the future of Mexicans @1:40 because the white man did make Mexicans anglo. The moment one of us makes like 40k and above we forget where we came from. The moment migrants from Central and South America come to these lands, all of sudden they gotta come the right way.

Que viva La Raza!!✊🏽

What 9+10?

I am an ignorant white person who wants to learn. Is the term Chicanos purely for Americans of Mexican descent or does it apply to other Spanish speaking peoples? Also I am a historian who would like to learn more about the Chicano movement. So please suggest books on the topic😀.

who here from ms robs class

Brown pride Si Se Puede

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It's too bad we didn't see more teachers who bucked the system as it was and encourage Hispanic students (most of whose families actually arrived here legally back then, btw) to do their best as we saw dramatized in the movie "Stand and Deliver". (although I knew a lot of the Chicanos I knew at the time hated that movie and they felt teachers like the one Edward James Olmos protrayed were somehow sellouts to white culture, similar to the way blacks and Latinos feel today, only now they are being taught by the system about CRT and that they basically aren't interested in learning anything so they stopped testing them in many California schools and give them automatic A's as long as they come to class occasionally....) Come to of it, I think the movie WAS about this teacher. It's been awhile since I saw it. But this kind of protest for something that really MEANS something to the community and not like the UCLA pro-Hamas "protests" which seems to me more like well-to-do kids who crave something meaningful to do with their time. You'd think they'd quit school and join the Peace Corps instead. Go to the Mideast and protest THERE (if they'll have them). So this battle was fought and won, and now the Far Left has done their best to destroy everything that Chicanos fought so hard for by turning the current public schools into a system for radicalization and not to teach kids anything anymore but gender fluidity. California went from number 3 in education to the bottom 2 nationwide in the last 40 years under Democratic policies. No wonder they are losing Latino support. Even Black support.

❤2023 Book. Teaching white supremacy by Donald Yacovan. They stopped teaching white supremacy in public schools 1776-1965 due to Martin Luther King and Malcom X

Those student demands on the first page alone were both ludicrous and way to open-ended. No wonder they got rejected for the most part. Having bilingual teachers should only be used for bridging communication gaps. The common language across the whole country should be taught.