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Museum slated to host historical presentation on school walkouts

Special to the AdvanceEDINBURG — The Museum of South Texas History welcomes James B. Barrera to present “‘We Want Better Education!’: The 1960s Chicano Student Movement, School Walkouts and the Quest for Education Reform in South Texas” during the Sunday Speaker Series at 2 p.m. June 9.This presentation will focus on how Chicano/Mexican American students organized and sustained their own school “walkouts,” or grassroots protest movement, in response to the educational deficiencies that they faced in public schools throughout South Texas before and during the 1960s.Four major case studies that underscore this type of social protest activism in the region ...

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