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Analysis Of The Los Angeles Walkouts

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The Los Angeles Walkouts was a protest act for Latinos to raise the issue of prejudice among teachers and administration for Mexican American students. (Simpson, 2012)
On March 6, 1968, students currently enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School in East L.A. orchestrated a walkout to express their opinion of their poor classroom education. Mexican Americans believed the educators were offering only vocational and trade careers. Chicano believed educators were not allowing them to attempt at four-year unversity. The students also felt the school district was ignoring their culture and their history and wanted more ethnically diverse faculty and ethnic studies. (Valadez,

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