Rest assured that we will continue, Charlotte Myrna Paula Robin. After the walkouts, he continued to teach, mentor, motivate, serve and change lives for 45 more years. Sal Castro organized a student strike with other schools, and the Latin(x) students wrote a list of demands.

More than 3,000 people attended his funeral at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels-a testament to Castro's legacy in the Los Angeles community.Decades of institutionalized racism culled an environment that perpetuated negative stereotypes, high dropout rates, sparse resources, overcrowding and reinforced low expectations. The suspected shooter, a 12-year-old girl, was taken into custody, police say. On March 6, 1968, they held the first walkout. Police say two students were shot at Sal Castro Middle School in Los Angeles. Sal Castro, here. "The enthusiasm of the students who participated in the walkouts as well as programs such as the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference, which Castro helped run, soon extended to their friends, families and eventually the whole community-serving as a catalyst for the Chicano Movement.CSULA Social Work Professor Rita Ledesma met Castro through the UCLA Upward Bound program in 1968. Photo courtesy Charlotte Lerchenmuller.In June 2010, the Los Angeles Unified School District honored Castro through the naming of the Sal Castro Middle School, located on the Belmont High School campus. That was powerful. Photo courtesy Rita Ledesma.Castro, on the megaphone, was a social studies teacher at Lincoln High School when the student walkouts occurred in 1968. On Feb 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated. We are in the process of seeing how and where we will present our Spring 2019 conference and future conferences until Camp Hess Kramer is rebuilt. This is a Journey Box about Sal Castro who had a major influence in the 1960s where students in LA were engaged in "walkouts" due to educational inequalities in schools. Latin(x) students were not encouraged to take academic classes.

On March 6, 1968, they held the first walkout. He told them they weren't the problem, the school system was the problem.

The spirit of Sal Castro and the spirit of CYLC will not be extinguished by this tragedy.

That was powerful.​​​​​​​Sal Castro saw a problem with the school.

Castro died early Monday morning at his home in Silver Lake, months after being diagnosed with stage 4 thyroid cancer, his wife told the Los Angeles Times.

Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice by Mario T. García 44 ratings, 4.09 average rating, 4 reviews Blowout! I will miss Sal, his phone calls, introductions and calls to action, but I am renewed in the commitment to continue his work. I certainly felt great honor and love when Sal introduced me.

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He told them they weren't the problem, the school system was the problem. There were 13,000 Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles schools, yet Latin(x) students had the lowest graduation rates nationwide. Despite this, something was happening in East LA.

Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice, which he co-wrote with University of California, Santa Barbara professor Mario T. Garcia.As one of a few Mexican-American educators in the East Los Angeles schools in the 1960s, Sal Castro ('61) inspired thousands of students to fight against their inferior education-an effort that grew into the East Los Angeles student walkouts of 1968. On Apr 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and on June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Sal Castro inspired Latin(x) students by teaching them to love their culture.

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