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Podcast: Tales From Aztlantis
Episode: Episode 89: Rise Up. Walk Out.
Description: It was March 1968, and East Los Angeles was ready to explode.The city didn’t know it yet—hell, the country didn’t know it—but a brown revolution was about to burst forth out of its high schools. Over the course of a single week, up to 22,000 Chicano students—most of them teenagers, some still clutching textbooks and brown paper lunch bags—stood up, turned their backs on the chalkboards, and walked out. Their message was clear: they were tired of being treated as second-class citizens in the school system.The East L.A. Walkout...