CSU Channel Islands’ Chicano Studies program presents Sal Castro and Mario T. Garcia in a book signing for “Blowout: Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice,” from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the Broome Library 1320.
In 1968, Castro was the leader of a series of school walkouts in East Los Angeles protesting years of inferior and discriminatory education for Mexican Americans. These “blowouts” as they were called, are the largest and most widespread civil rights protests by Mexican Americans in U.S. history and the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the university reported in a media release.
Garcia, born in El Paso, has taught as San Jose State University, Sand Diego State University, Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is currently Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies and a Fulbright teaching fellowship. He is an author of numerous books on Chicano history.
The event is free and open to the public.
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