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The Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education - José Angel Gutiérrez
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INTRODUCTION
In the 1920s, early pioneers in the struggle for equal educational opportunity in Texas included Manuel C. González, with La Liga Protectora Mexicana, The Mexican Protection League;
María and Pedro Hernández of Lytle, with Orden Hijos de América, the Order of the Sons of America,
and later with Orden Caballeros de América, the Order of the Knights of America;
and, lastly, Eluterio Escobar of San Antonio, with La Liga Pro-Defensa Escolar, The Pro-Defense League for Schools.
Hernández and Escobar led street protests in San Antonio’s west side barrio demanding better facilities and teachers for their children.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was founded in 1929. LULAC has historically been the plaintiff in educational litigation on behalf of Mexican-ancestry students and parents in this country.
After World War II, in 1948, another group emerged that joined LULAC as a proponent for better human conditions for returning veterans of Mexican ancestry: the American G.I. Forum (AGIF). At the time, African American students were rigidly segregated into inferior school facilities and programs based on race, and Hispanic students were as segregated because of language. The Hernández v. Texas case, heard by the US Supreme Court prior to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, dealt with the racial issue of Mexican-ancestry persons in America. The court held that Mexican-origin persons, while classified as white for racial purposes, were set apart as not being white enough to be treated like whites. This case gave persons of Mexican origin their civil rights protections under the 14th Amendment.
Since 1946, in various federal and state court cases, Mexican parents, primarily in California and Texas, have fought for equal educational opportunity for their children, including demands for desegregation, bilingual education, testing, and equitable school financing. They met with success in the first two areas of discrimination and are still fighting for the latter two. LULAC and AGIF raised funds and served as plaintiffs for litigation to advance educational opportunity and veterans’ rights until the advent of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF).
Dr. Leonard Valverde is seen at left in his office and below posing for a photograph with his wife, Josefina, (far right); Dr. Hans Mark, the chancellor of the University of Texas; and Dr. Mark’s wife, Anna. (Left, courtesy of Josefina Valverde; below, courtesy of Dr. Leonard Valverde.)
One
THE CHICANO MOVEMENT
The Chicano movement grew rapidly in the 1960s, led by youth, farm workers, and women. Chicano students took the lead in fomenting social change by boycotting classes en masse. By not attending classes, they deprived the school districts of state funding based on per-pupil daily attendance, an economic weapon. In Texas, the spearheading group for these student protests was the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO).
Among the Chicano student demands to return to the classroom and stop the boycott was a call for Chicano studies and Chicano teachers. This demand, in turn, caused a ripple effect in higher education, as Chicano high school graduates had to be enrolled in colleges and made into teachers. Chicano professors had to be hired to help train such teachers. The statistics of Chicano students in college were dismal, as were the faculty ranks of Chicanos. This need to fill the void of historical neglect prompted institutions of higher education to seek out and hire Chicano professors.
Once hired, these new faculty, together with early pioneers who were often the only token Chicanos in a department or a college, sought each other out across the state and the nation. The National Task Force de la Raza was formed by Chicano academics across the nation, and, in 1974, the Chicano Faculty Association at the University of Texas at Austin began the organizing steps to form TACHE.
In the 1960s, the Chicano civil rights struggle took on another name: the Chicano movement. In essence, this civil rights movement emerged because there was a need for leadership renewal to augment—and supplant in some cases—the older, traditional organizations that excluded from membership agricultural workers, women, youth, and non-US citizens. Its principal leaders were described as the Four Horsemen
in Matt Meier and Feliciano Rivera’s book The Chicanos. These were César E. Chávez (California), Reies López Tijerina (New Mexico), Rodolfo Corky
Gonzáles (Colorado), and José Angel Gutiérrez (Texas). (Top left, courtesy of Richard Jensen; all others, courtesy of Marina Tristán, Arte Público Press.)
Chicano youth, male and female, formed their own organizations to press for social change; they did not want to wait until age 21 to become members of traditional organizations or be eligible to vote. The motto (above) of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), La Union Hace La Fuerza,
was borrowed from the 1894 Alianza Hispano-Americana. The slogan seen below on the MAYO button, La Raza Unida,
became the name of the Chicano political party in the 1970s. (Above, courtesy of John Martínez, Aztlan Media Kollective; below, courtesy of Natalia Verjat Gutiérrez.)