Topics: La Escuela de la Raza Unida, Education, Chicana Movement, Freedom Community School
Title – La Escuela de La Raza Unida: A classroom at the Shade of Every Tree
Participants: Alfredo Acosta Figueroa , Angelica Figueroa Rodriguez
Publish Date: 06/22/2021
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Discussion Topics:
Was Blythe California originally a mining town?
How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida begin?
Why did showing a video of Nixon eating grapes outside the Los Angeles Memorial Auditorium result in aggression against a student in a MECHA meeting in a Blythe school?
The failure of the school board to respond to the demands to reprimand the principal for injuring the MECHA student resulted in Demesia Figueroa saying “ we will never send another one of our children to the public school.”
How do you build a school when you are not a formally trained educator?
The office of United Farm Workers and Bert Corona Bert Corona – Wikipedia were supporters of the school, La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
The Escuela de la Raza Unida was started May 1, 1972
How did the old post office building become the new site of the school ( La Escuela de la Raza Unida)?
KERU, Chicana bilingual radio station in California.
The students in the school were active participants in the college and community movements.
Crystal City, Texas and Denver, Colorado also started similar schools to La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
Why was it against the law to sing the corrido of Joaquin Murrieta?
Pedro J Gonzales, Los Madrigadores was one of the first Mexican American radio broadcasters in Los Angeles in 1927/8?
What type public school of education program was being offered to Mexican- American and Chicana students in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s?
Agricultural Workers Community, AWOC
In 1965 there was a grape strike in Coachella.
Tlatelolco school in Denver Colorado.
Why didn’t the other community alternative schools last as long as La Escuela de La Raza Unida?
How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida operate without state funds?
Why did Cesar Chavez donate a bus to La Escuela de la Raza Unida ?
What was the student experience of attending La Escuela de la Raza Unida?
What are the post COVID-19 plans for La Escuela de la Raza Unida?
