A Chicano activist celebrates an anniversary – Armando Vazquez-Ramos celebrates the birth of the Chicano Movement 40 years ago

He could have been one heck of an auto mechanic. But the prevailing forces of the civil-rights movement, a raging war overseas and a leap of faith in education rewrote the destiny of Armando Vazquez-Ramos.

Beginning in March and extending throughout the year, countless events will celebrate the 40th anniversary of what Vazquez-Ramos and many others of his generation hail as the birth of the Chicano Movement. They connect it with the March 1968 walkouts involving hundreds of East Los Angeles high-school students.

Led by a passionate young teacher named Sal Castro, Mexican-American kids defied their instructors and, in many instances, their parents to protest institutional racism and inequitable education conditions on their campuses. Their actions lighted a fire that engulfed young brown teens throughout the whole Southwest.”*

*From: www.scrippsnews.com
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