Topics:    La Escuela de la Raza Unida,    Education, Chicana Movement, Freedom Community School

Title – La Escuela de La Raza Unida: A classroom at the Shade of Every Tree
Participants:  Alfredo Acosta Figueroa , Angelica Figueroa Rodriguez
Publish Date: 06/22/2021
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Discussion Topics:

• Was Blythe California originally a mining town?
• How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida begin?
• Why  did showing a video of Nixon eating grapes outside the Los Angeles  Memorial Auditorium  result in aggression against a student in a MECHA  meeting in a Blythe school?
• The failure of the school board to  respond to the demands to reprimand the principal for injuring the MECHA  student resulted in Demesia  Figueroa saying “ we will never send  another one of our children to the  public school.”
• How do you build a school when you are not a formally trained educator?
• The office of United Farm Workers and Bert Corona  Bert Corona – Wikipedia were supporters of the school, La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
• The  Escuela de la Raza Unida  was started   May 1, 1972
• How did the old  post office building become the  new site of the school ( La Escuela de la Raza Unida)?
• KERU,  Chicana bilingual radio station in  California.
• The students in the school were active participants in the college and community movements.
• Crystal City, Texas and Denver, Colorado also started similar schools to La Escuela de la Raza Unida.
• Why was it against the law to sing the corrido of Joaquin Murrieta?
• Pedro J Gonzales, Los Madrigadores  was one of the first  Mexican American radio broadcasters in Los Angeles in 1927/8?
• What  type public school of education program was being offered to Mexican-  American and Chicana students in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s?
• Agricultural Workers Community, AWOC
• In 1965  there was a grape strike in Coachella.
• Tlatelolco school in Denver Colorado.
• Why didn’t the other community alternative schools last as long as La Escuela de La Raza Unida?
• How did La Escuela de la Raza Unida  operate without state funds?
• Why did  Cesar  Chavez donate a bus to La Escuela de la Raza Unida ?
• What was the student experience of attending La Escuela de la Raza Unida?
• What are the post COVID-19 plans for La Escuela de la Raza Unid