Carlos Munoz, Jr.StudentsMaking of the Chicano movement revisited – lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968 – ColumnTwenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools — and, by day’s end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.June 16, 2007Page 1 of 1
