Schools-Disputes and Student Activism | Pueblo

Recommendations made to this school to improve Chicano student success/experience

List of demands presented to East High School for Chicano teachers, counselors, etc.

Letter to Superintendent of School District 60 listing the problems with the district’s Chicano education

Summary of recommendations for Pueblo school district 60 in terms of Chicano Education

2016 interview of George Autobee talking about being involved with student activism and pushing for Chicano Studies courses at CSU Pueblo as a veteran. This would have been during the Chicano Movement in the 1970s. Autobee included information regarding his involvement with MEChA and student protests at CSU-Pueblo.

After Chicano parents visit multiple elementary schools and make public statements to the media about how they are failing students, teachers are left feeling attacked. The parents claim they did not visit with intention to criticize but were just concerned with their students falling behind in reading levels. Parents seem to be trying to remedy these relationships but district 60 keeps evading the problems.

Chicano children and adults rallied at the School District 60 administration building in a demonstration against what they termed failure to remedy alleged discrimination in the schools and lack of Chicano teachers.  The group later demonstrated against “police brutality” at Pueblo Police Department headquarters.”  Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzales, state chairman of La Raza Unida party, was to be the keynote speaker.

El Azteca paper, published by students at Central High School in Pueblo, Vol. 2, Issue 2, March, 1996. Front page shows Quetzalcoatl, with subjects of some of the contents.

Mimeographed student paper from Horace Mann Jr. High, Pueblo, May, 1973.  Initials stand for “For Us Chicano Kids.” Issue is dedicated to our Indian Brothers in Wounded Knee.