A Latino theater company in San Antonio has restaged the play 'Crystal City 1969.' The play highlights the historical significance of the Mexican American student walkouts in Texas where students demanded change from school and local leaders.
, when thousands of students demanded changes from school and local leaders, who were white, and an end to racist and discriminatory treatment of Mexican American students.San Antonio Express-News Photograph Collection / UTSA Special Collections
"When we were active, there were no books. There were no mentors. There was nobody to tell us how to do what we had to do. There was just rage," said Gutiérrez, who went on to become an attorney and is a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. “As long as this story is being denied in our schools, this story is still relevant, and this is 53 years after the first day of the walkout,” Lozano said.
Rivas-Rodriguez said that at every performance, someone raised the issue of the current movements against teaching about race, racism and identity, such as the recent block by Florida Gov.
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