The Gigi Gaucher-Morales Memorial Lecture Series, the Emeriti Association, the  College of Arts and Letters, the College of Natural and Social Sciences, the Department of Chicano Studies, and the Department of English at Cal State L.A. invite you to a Lecture and Book Presentation by

Dr. Mario T. García

University of California, Santa Barbara

 and

Sal Castro

American Educator and Activist

Title of Lecture:

"BLOWOUT! 

Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for
 Educational Justice"

   With a Book-Signing after the Lecture

Introduction

Dr. Louis R. Negrete

Emeritus Professor of Chicano Studies

California State University, Los Angeles

Salazar Hall E-184

Wednesday, April 18, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

California State University, Los Angeles

   This Lecture is Free and Open to the Public

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the largest and most widespread civil rights protests by Mexican Americans in U.S. history. 

This fascinating testimonio, or oral history, transcribed and presented in Castro's voice by historian Mario T. García, is a compelling, highly readable narrative of a young boy growing up in Los Angeles who made history by his leadership in the blowouts and in his career as a dedicated and committed teacher. Blowout! fills a major void in the history of the civil rights and Chicano movements of the 1960s, particularly the struggle for educational justice.

                       

 Photo of Sal Castro (left) and Mario Garcia (right) by Tony Mastres.

Mario T. García is professor of Chicana/o studies and adjunct professor in history and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sal Castro is an American educator and activist.

Blowout!

Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice

by Mario T. García and Sal Castro

384 pp., 30 illus., appends., notes, index

ISBN 978-0-8078-3448-0 $34.95 cloth

For more information: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8981.html

Interview with Professor Mario García (UC Santa Barbara)

in relation to his recent book on the Chicano Walkouts

The 1968 School Walkouts

Documentary

On March 15, 2012, Librotraficante Caravan visits Rudolfo Anaya's home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before it makes its way to Arizona to protest a state-wide ban on Mexican American and Latino books.