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==East L.A. Walkouts==
[[File: Cesar_chavez_visita_a_colegio_cesar_chavez.jpg|thumbnail|250px350px|Cesar Chavez]]
On March 3, 1968, Mexican American students enrolled in Abraham Lincoln High School in East L.A. successfully organized a walkout and most of the students left their classrooms to protest their poor classroom education. They felt they were receiving a substandard education because they were Mexicans and Mexican Americans. The school had forcibly tracked most of the Mexican and Mexican American students into trade and vocational careers They did not allow them to even consider pursuing a degree four-year collegiate institution.
