This award winning book is a memoir about the author's involvement and his assumption of a leadership role in the late 1960's Chicano Student Movement in California.
Reported as a rebellion by the Azusa Herald, a local newspaper, this In Xochitl In Cuicatl explains the causes for the student walkout at Azusa High on December 13, 1968. With pivotal advice and assistance from Sal Castro, student leaders form UMAS , forerunner of MECHA, a Xicano student organization today found on many high school and college campuses. It vividly details the author's successful year end frantic struggle to gain admission to a four year college after being rejected by seven colleges and universities whose applications were deliberately sabotaged by school administrators. this historical nonfiction account is a powerful and extraordinary unique glance in that 1968 year or worldwide student activism and which was also a part and part of the late 1960's incipient movimiento known as La Causa Chicana.
This award winning book is a memoir about the author's involvement and his assumption of a leadership role in the late 1960's Chicano Student Movement in California.
Reported as a rebellion by the Azusa Herald, a local newspaper, this In Xochitl In Cuicatl explains the causes for the student walkout at Azusa High on December 13, 1968. With pivotal advice and assistance from Sal Castro, student leaders form UMAS , forerunner of MECHA, a Xicano student organization today found on many high school and college campuses. It vividly details the author's successful year end frantic struggle to gain admission to a four year college after being rejected by seven colleges and universities whose applications were deliberately sabotaged by school administrators. this historical nonfiction account is a powerful and extraordinary unique glance in that 1968 year or worldwide student activism and which was also a part and part of the late 1960's incipient movimiento known as La Causa Chicana.