Word: mexican-american
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...strike of Mexican-American farm-workers' came to a successful conclusion Wednesday when Schenley Industries, the major producer of grapes in the valley, recognized the National Farm-workers' Association as the laborer's bargaining representative...
...Riot! Riot!" It all started when two men-Joe Garcia, 26, a Mexican-American, and Dwayne Graves, 16, a Negro-bumped into each other outside a Watts liquor store. Between the Negro ghetto and the Mexican colony clustered in nearby East Los Angeles, there is a tradition of jealous rivalry, and tensions have been rising. Negroes, who resent the light-skinned Mexicans because they find it easier to get jobs, had stabbed several of their rivals in the previous riots. Mexicans, for their part, regard themselves as better-educated and racially superior to their Negro neighbors, whom they accuse...
Looting & Molotovs. Swelling into the hundreds, a mob stormed through the twelve-block area that still bears the scars of what Watts calls "the Au gust revolution," overturning vehicles, smashing store windows, pommeling and stabbing whites. A Mexican-American truck driver, Lawrence Gomez, 30, was surrounded, beaten, and shot to death. Negro Joe Crawford, 33, for no apparent reason was killed by a sniper. Molotov cocktails started a dozen fires while looters pillaged stores. Having learned their lesson in August, when police initially pulled out in hope that the violence would die down, more than 200 cops swept through...
...Tired of the financial squeeze after his sophomore year, Lyndon brashly applied for a teaching job in the obscure town of Cotulla, between San Antonio and Laredo. He was named principal of a new red brick Mexican-American school, charged at the age of 20 with directing five teachers, and paid what he now terms "the magnificent, munificent salary of $125 a month." Yet those nine months in a county where the Mexican kids lived in waterless, crumbling shacks and the median education of Mexican adults is still a mere 1.4 years proved the most rewarding of Lyndon...
...first job after college was as a teacher in Cotulla, Texas, in a small Mexican-American school. My students were poor, and they often came to class without breakfast and hungry. And they knew even in their youth the pain of prejudice. They never seemed to know why people disliked them, but they knew it was so because I saw it in their eyes...