Monte Perez attends the Roosevelt High School walkout
La Raza Staff1968/1968
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Monte Perez attends the Roosevelt High School walkout.According to La Raza staff photographer Joe Razo, these photographs are not of the initial walkouts at Roosevelt High School. According to La Raza staff photographer Joe Razo, the students behind Monte Perez are either high school, CSULA or UCLA students. Roosevelt High School was one of the participating schools in the East L.A. walkouts of 1968. The walkouts were protests by Chicano students against inequality in LAUSD high schools ranging from poor facilities and poor education to the underestimation of Mexican-American student capabilities by teachers. Digital surrogate produced from negative.
Details
- Title: Monte Perez attends the Roosevelt High School walkout
- Creator: La Raza Staff
- Date Created: 1968/1968
- Location: Box 1, Folder 3, Negative Sleeve 1, Frame 20
- Subject Keywords: Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles, Calif.), Los Angeles (Calif.), Student activism, Student walkouts, Protest, Perez, Monte E., University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, California State University Long Beach, CSULB, Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: © La Raza Staff - all rights reserved
- Topics: Roosevelt High School Walkouts
- Collection: La Raza Photograph Collection [Collection #1000], Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Access Terms: Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles, Calif.); Los Angeles (Calif.); Student activism; Student walkouts; Protest; Perez, Monte E.; University of California, Los Angeles; UCLA; California State University Long Beach; CSULB; Los Angeles Unified School District; LAUSD
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