The Sixties and Revolution

It seems like everyone in the sixties had a cause, and had something very loud to say about it.  I think it is such an interesting time to learn about, with so much going on and so much changing.  The world was going from the conformities of the fifties to the wild sixties and from there into what we are today.  During the sixties people questioned authority, and questioned how things were and why they were that way.  Most of all, they questioned how they could change the wrongs that were happening.  In spanish I heard of a movement that happened around this time that involved the Chicanos of Los Angeles.  Like most of the protesters of the time they were young.  In high school actually; my age.  Like many Latinos in Los Angeles, they were congregated on the upper east side, which was not a nice neighborhood.  The schools they went to were just as bad, with little oppotunities to get ahead and teachers who didn't care.  In their schools they were not allowed to speak spanish, or speak of their heritage.   They were demeaned by the faculty, and their resources were minimal.  During this movement they found pride in their heritage and demanded to be treated like full U.S. citizens. Like many other movements, it got violent.  But they got their message across by a series of "walk-outs" from school.   I thought that it was a very interesting story, and interesting to see the parallels between the different movements of the sixties for equal civil rights.