Ebook: Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston
Author: San Miguel Guadalupe
- Tags: Mexican Americans, School Integration, Discrimination In Education, Texas -- History
- Series: University of Houston series in Mexican American studies no. 3.
- Publisher: TAMU Press [Imprint]
- City: College Station
- Language: English
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Strikes, boycotts, rallies, negotiations, and litigation marked the efforts of Mexican-origin community members to achieve educational opportunities and oppose discrimination in Houston schools in the early 1970s. The Houston Independent School District sparked these responses because it circumvented a court order to desegregate by classifying Mexican American children as "white" and integrating them with African Read more...