#Onthisday 50 years ago, the influential East L.A. School Walkouts (Blowouts) began, transforming the Chicano movement in Los Angeles.
Over two weeks, tens of thousands of young Latino students took to the streets to protest conditions in their schools on the East Los Angeles. In many ways, the walkouts (primarily at Wilson, Roosevelt, Garfield, Belmont and Lincoln high schools) were the first public display of an urban Chicano rights movement that had begun among California farm workers in the previous several years. The walkouts were the first mass mobilization of Mexican-Americans in Southern California.
The East L.A. Walkouts and their impact are being remembered through over the next couple of weeks in a range of ways, from conferences to news articles. See some of these efforts below
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-1968-east-la-walkouts-20180301-htmlstory.html
http://laschoolreport.com/50-years-after-the-walkouts-los-angeles-latino-students-are-still-fighting-for-educational-equity/
https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/03/01/81235/fifty-years-ago-thousands-walked-out-of-east-la-sc/
https://la.curbed.com/maps/east-los-angeles-walkouts-history
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-blowouts-20180228-story.html
https://www.kcet.org/shows/departures/east-la-blowouts-walking-out-for-justice-in-the-classrooms
http://www.boyleheightsbeat.com/cal-state-la-marks-50th-anniversary-of-east-l-a-walkouts-19432/
http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/ppa/publicat/walkin-2018
https://achieve.lausd.net/site/Default.aspx?PageID=14359
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/50th-Anniversary-of-East-LA-Walkouts-Highlights-Student-Activism-475609353.html
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/03/01/1968-walkouts-50th-anniversary/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-sanchez-east-la-walkouts_us_5a981ef2e4b07dffeb708bc5
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-walkout-anniversary-garfield-20180228-story.html
https://home.lausd.net/apps/news/article/829816
https://daily.jstor.org/the-activist-students-of-1960s-east-los-angeles/?