Word: chicanoes
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...juncture, others have pursued it further. The most common alternative analysis of the problem is an economic one. Simply, that tight money means fewer applications from black students, even 20 to 25 per cent less. Well, it is first necessary to remind those who hold this economic view, that Chicano and Puerto Rican applications have increased despite tight money. In addition, I think that the percentage of black students on financial aid at Harvard is lower than what might be commonly surmised...
...were also recently informed that a physician studying the side effects of the pill had prescribed a sugar placebo in lieu of the contraceptive to Chicano patients. These women were to be the "controls" in his experiment. To their surprise the women soon found themselves burdened with unwanted pregnancies...
...students worked specifically on problems of women, one helping a group of divorced mothers to organize a handbook on the problems of divorce, another helping the Pregnancy Counseling Service in Boston. Other students initiated projects geared to the problems of black and Chicano workers: two people worked to improve minority health care; another two helped Detroit factory workers to organize a credit union. E4A funded one senior who traveled to Washington, D.C., to help in Ralph Nader's investigation of Congress; another student went home to Kenya to try to help local coffee- growers organize a cooperative...
...union (the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America), much less bargain with them for higher wages. Strike leaders called a national boycott of Farah goods and, since 95% of the company's work force is Mexican-American, the company was soon squirming under the heat of a popular Chicano cause rivaling the California grape and lettuce workers' strikes...
Senators Edward Kennedy and Gaylord Nelson condemned the company. AFL-CIO President George Meany and Senator George McGovern, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor John Lindsay joined in endorsing the boycott. Chicano Leader Cesar Chavez rolled into town in a bus carrying large signs proclaiming support...