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...first Chicano Lawyers Symposium on the East Coast will be held at the Harvard Law School on Thursday and Friday, addressing itself to the legal, social, economic and educational problems of the Chicano community...
Although there are only about 80 Chicano law students in Boston, including 14 at the Law School, the Chicano Law Students Association is presenting the Symposium to help educate the University on the situation of the nation's second largest minority. "Many of the Chicano Law students became aware of the 'innocent ignorance,' and lack of knowledge concerning their people when they first came to the University," a spokesman for the Association said...
...Chicanos at the Law School, nine are in the first year. Only one Chicano has graduated from the Law School, according to the Association spokesman. The Law School has not confirmed or denied this...
Higgs - who represented James Meredith in his battle to gain admittance to the University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...
...former city employee spoke of their absence in the community; he was ignored by city officials and later privately chewed out by them. El Monte calls itself the first "all-American" community in Los Angeles County. Ironically, it is now fast becoming a Mexican-American stronghold, with a Chicano population estimated at between 35% and 50%. There are increasing strains. An El Monte policeman was shot and left paralyzed from the waist down in what many of the local old guard believe was a Mexican-American ambush...