Activists take over L.A. streets celebrating 1968 ‘blowouts’ – Thousands re-enact the East Los Angeles high school boycotts by marching from Lincoln H.S. to Hazard Park. – Los Angeles
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An estimated crowd of 2,000 to 3,000, including many of the original protesters and organizers, gathered at Lincoln High School in the Lincoln Heights community in East L.A. on Saturday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the “Chicano Blowouts.”
Armando Vazquez-Ramos, a Cal State Long Beach Chicano/Latino studies professor and Lincoln High graduate, led a contingency of about 20 CSULB students in the 1.5-mile reenactment march to Hazard Park in nearby Boyle Heights. Vazquez-Ramos, who was in his first year as a CSULB student, was among the 1968 demonstrators at Lincoln.
“The energy is amazing,” Vazquez-Ramos said. “We felt we accomplished something in 1968, but with a more than 45 percent dropout rate at Lincoln and other schools in L.A., we still have a long way to go.”"*
*From: media.www.daily49er.com
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