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==East L.A. Walkouts==

On March 3, 1968, Mexican American students enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School in East L.A. had successfully organized a walkout and most of the students left their classrooms to protest against the poor education they felt they were receiving as Mexicans and Mexican Americans. The school had tracked most of the Mexican and Mexican American students in to trade and vocational careers, not allowing them to even consider a four-year institution. Additionally, the students felt that the school system had disregarded their culture and history and they called for more ethnic studies and more ethnically diverse faculty.<ref>Michael Soldatenko, “Mexican Student Movements in Los Angeles and Mexico City,” ''Latino Studies'', 1 (2003): 290-295.</ref> Much like the non-violent Black student sit-ins in Greensboro N.C. that had happened eight years prior, “the Los Angeles strike signaled the beginnings of a powerful Chicano student movement throughout the Southwestern United States.” <ref>Carlos Muñoz, “The Last Word: Making the Chicano Movement Revisited,” ''Black Issues in Higher Education'', 13, no. 3 (Apr. 4, 1996): 72.</ref> By the end of this historical day in Chicano and U.S. history, more than 10,000 students would join in on the strike in states all over the Southwest all the way to South Texas.