| Collection Name: |
Mexican American/Chicano History: Chicano Student Movement |
| Repository Name: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
Long Beach, California, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.csulb.edu/projects/voaha/summary/page16.html |
| Material Formats: |
[5 documents with audio] |
| Description: |
The 1960s was a time of change. The Black civil right movement, opposition to the war in Vietnam, student protests for more relevant classes, farm workers organizing unions, New Mexican farmers asserting ownership of public land, hippies advocating love were among the agents of change. In the midst of all of this, Mexican American students were going to college in larger numbers than ever before, many as the first one in their families to do so, and wondering where they fit into all of these changes. Drawing on the example of earlier Mexican American activists, such as those who organized to secure justice for the young men accused of the Sleepy Lagoon murders, or elected Edward Roybal to the Los Angeles City Council, they began to organize among themselves. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
5 |
| Interviews: |
[5 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
Ethnic groups; History |
| ASP Subjects: |
Mexican American college students; Mexican American leadership; Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans--Civil rights; Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity; Mexican Americans--Study and teaching; Mexico; Oral history; United States |
| Other Subjects: |
Chicano movement |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000242 |
