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As a teacher, Sal Castro changed the course of Chicano education by speaking up. Once again, the people who knew him and benefited from his activism are keeping his vision — and his ideals — alive.

DENVER — There are parts of Colorado history everyone knows well. Then there are topics that made huge impacts here, yet rarely make it into the textbooks taught in school. The Chicano Civil Rights ...

Introduction -- The leaking caste system -- Barrios at war -- Organizing unity -- A congressman reacts -- Kill the gringos! -- The Berets rise up -- Women creating space -- Batos claiming legitimacy - ...

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El Coraje, a 1960s Tucson Chicano movement newspaper, is gaining new life in classrooms at the University of Arizona. This year's editor is Karina Salazar, a journalism senior who wants to write about ...

Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, this book brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for progressive politics in ...

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