Word: primitivo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest as it was, his life was probably beyond dreams he might have entertained as a boy in his native Chihuahua, where his parents and their ten children earned a bare subsistence with a vegetable and fruit stand in the market. As any good script would have it, Primitivo, 23, along with his younger brother Alfredo, began a naturalization course at night at Kansas City's Westport High School, the first step to ward his cherished goal of becoming a U.S. citizen. If Primitivo Garcia had been like the U.S. citizens who were around Westport one cold night last...
After Class. Talking with his brother and a couple of other Mexicans after class, Primitivo was approached from behind by a young tough - one of a group of Negro youths who had paused after molesting people down the road -and struck in the face. He started to lash back, but others from both groups prevented a full-scale fight. A few minutes later, Primitivo and Mrs. Margaret Kindermann, 25, his naturalization teacher, were in more serious trouble...