It was the students of Uvalde who stood up against segregation and for equal education in the 1970s. Today the time has come for us to rise up for them.
Uvalde and Community-Based Struggles for Educational Equality
But Uvalde stands for much more than supposed “Latino-on-Latino” violence, or the suffering of ostensibly passive victims. One place to begin a fuller, more accurate story is with Robb Elementary School itself, and with the history of the struggle for equality in the public schools in Uvalde.
In Uvalde itself, 500 students led a walkout from the local schools on April 14, 1970. It became the longest boycott of its kind during [the] crucial period of Chicano activism, which laid the groundwork there for desegregation.
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