CH ST 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Los Angeles High School, Los Angeles Unified School District, These Kids
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Today"s class: chicana/o movement the east los angeles high school blow-outs (march. Historical event largely neglected captured inally in hbo ilm, walk-out, released in march. 2006: movie ironically overlapped with hr 4437 (sensenbrenner bill); draconian ani-immigrant bill. Many students watched walk-out and then literally walked out to protest. Commiing a misdemeanor counted as a felony: watch clips from ilm (introductory scenes, survey, police repression, walk-out, inal scene on steps) (20 minutes). 9,000 mexican-americans fought at getysburg but most history books don"t even show it. These kids got hit in the but for speaking spanish in school. If it"s not worth saying in english, it"s not worth saying . Paula gave out surveys about how they were treated in school. Started to walk out and police said to return to their classrooms or they would be arrested. Police were hiing the kid and beaing them. The police were chasing them and the kids had to hop fences.
