Forgotten history: Chicano student walkouts changed Texas, but inequities remain. - NBCLatino
Herlinda Sifuentes, 69, was a senior at the time and daughter of a single mother who worked two jobs, leaving her the responsibility of cooking meals for her and her six siblings each night.
In the end Sifuentes got her scholarship, went to college and had a long career with Southwestern Bell telephone company. Now retired, she is an operations director atThe walkouts did not only occur in San Antonio. Along with the better known 1968 student walkouts in East Los Angeles, also called The Blowouts, students in other Texas cities and towns mobilized too.
“We’d get paddled if we spoke Spanish in class. Discipline was very unequal. We didn’t have Chicano counselors. They demeaned us. They were very racist with us,” she said. Lara said she was not allowed to take a chemistry class because a school official said the classes were for people who were going to go college. She ended up graduating from college with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry.
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