ES 243 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ruben Salazar, Sargent Shriver, Police Riot
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First case to hold that school segregation itself is unconstitutional and violates the 14th. A federal circuit court in california ruled that segregation of school children was unconstitutional except this case involved the segregation of mexican american school children. In 1967 mexican american students throughout the southwest held a 60% high school dropout rate. If they did graduate, they averaged an 8th-grade reading level. Due to anglo-centric internal school policies many chicano students were fielded to vocational training or classes for the mentally disabled. Prejudice from teachers and administrators, both liberally-minded and outright bigoted, instigated stereotypes of mexican americans that discouraged the students from higher learning. These inequalities in education led to the 1968 east los angeles walkouts, also known as the blowouts, which displayed the largest mobilization of chicano youth leaders in. After the us recruited ag workers with the bracero program during wwii used mass deportation to send more than a million mexican workers back.
