Garfield High School unveiled a plaque honoring the legacy of the student protests.
Four days later, a fire alarm went off at Garfield High and students there flooded out of their classrooms. They were frustrated with feeling discriminated against and being subjected to a sub-par education. At the time, Latino students were tracked into vocational classes that steered them away from higher education.
Vickie Castro, who was a student at Roosevelt High School, noted that, from kindergarten through twelfth grade, she"never had a Chicano principal, teacher or counselor. ” She also made it a point to recognize the other students who joined the protest. Cassandra Zacarías Alarcón was a 15-year-old sophomore when she helped lead the walkouts at Garfield High School in 1968. “We were excited, but we were also very frightened," she said."We didn't know if the police were going to descend on us. We didn’t know if the other students would join us, or if it would just be us four with our picket signs, marching alone in front of the school.
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