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# The Chicano Rights Movement
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/voces/extras/chicano-rights-movement-y13qkx/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:58:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-22T10:25:02.000Z
- Description: Explore the historic 1968 “Walkouts."
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: VOCES, #ZZZ_Show_535dc1dd-e54d-4beb-b75e-b9c10968484f, #geo-us, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_67df99f2-7f45-4e89-a579-978dfa51edf0, #extra

Explore the historic 1968 “Walkouts” when tens of thousands of Mexican American and Chicano students walked out of five East Los Angeles high schools, protesting academic prejudice, dire school conditions, and demanding systemic reform. Oscar Zeta Acosta emerges as the main spokesman and celebrity attorney for the mushrooming “Brown Power” movement, defending the jailed organizers of the revolt.