He's happy he's being honored but also feels the labor leader's monolithic stature has overshadowed the struggles of city Latinos who derived no benefit from the farmworker fight.She and others were inspired by his story and planned to have another walkout in 1978, but they were met by school administrators and police officers and retreated to class.The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere.Castro was jailed for five days after the walkouts and lost his job, but he was rehired after weeks of protests by Eastside parents.
3. "Transferred to Lincoln High after the incident at Belmont, he worked with students and recent graduates to present a list of demands to the school board aimed at improving academic opportunities and fixing dilapidated classrooms.Sal Castro sat in his book-lined den, reduced to writing on a whiteboard to fight what could be his last political battle.The district attorney slapped a bunch of conspiracy charges on him.
I went to college and became a teacher.' Castro and 12 others faced felony criminal charges for instigating the high school walkouts. Log in.
3615 firing squad executions. He soon began pressing for change.
He has never heard from the president.That year, he also earned a credential to teach secondary school and taught junior high in Pasadena before landing a position at Belmont High. The East L.A. School Walkouts were an expression of the frustration over the treatment of the larger Chicano community by Anglos both in and out of the classroom. And he was still fighting the fight. Opportunities in the racialized Eastside schools were limited, with Mexican-American students being guided into vocational courses instead of academic instruction tracks for the college-bound students. By naming a new Westlake district campus in Castro's honor, the school district is officially acknowledging that fact. "Back then, the school board wanted to march him to the guillotine," said fellow educator Carlos Haro, a longtime friend. Sal Castro, the Lincoln High School social studies teacher who inspired students to stage mass walkouts from classes to demand better school in 1968, died in his Silver Lake home Monday. The panel discussion "History, Identity & Purpose: California Chicanos & Beyond" on Saturday at the Festival of Books began without Castro, one of the key organizers of the East Los Angeles walkouts in 1968.Castro's influence was so deep and profound that many of his students became teachers, and one — Carlos Moreno — went on to become a state Supreme Court justice.L.A.