Walkout (film)

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Walkout is a 2006 Home Box Office film based on a true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts. Student activist and Mexican-American Paula Crisostomo (played by Alexa Vega), tired of being treated unequally, decides to take action and stage a walkout at five East Los Angeles high schools in 1968 to protest educational conditions and complain of anti-Mexican educational bias along with some 10,000 students. It premiered March 18, 2006 on HBO.

Chicano LAPD Cop torn between White American Dominated Law and Order and Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

[edit] External links

• HBO: Walkout
• Walkout at the Internet Movie Database
• Walkout 1968
• http://www.rohan.sdsu.edu/%7Ergibson/WalkoutFilmReview.htm A Critical Review

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