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.
In this excerpt from a 2008 interview, Deborah Espinosa is discussing the role she played in creating a place for women on campus and within the greater Chicano Movement as a form of working against machismo.
Ray Aguilera talks in 2000 about his involvement with the Pueblo Hispanic Education Foundation in Pueblo.
In a 2016 interview, Josephine Minjares and Lucille Rivera Aragon talk about the challenges they faced working within Pueblo schools while being a part of Teacher Corps. Here they talk about what it means to them to have been change agents in the schools.
Built circa 1881 as a high school, after several years it became a grade school. Known as the "Stone Schoolhouse," it is constructed of pink rhyolite.
Judy Baca talks in 2016 about her experience in high school during the 70's when there were a lot of walkouts. Then she talks about her involvement at Colorado State College through Chicanos Unidos for Action and chicano studies courses. She talks about how when she was younger, being from Salt Creek, she was made to feel like she didn't like school and even considered dropping out.
