![]() ![]() ![]() Martinez invited the fiery Los Angeles teacher Sal Castro to speak in Chula Vista in April 1968 when criticism was mounting against the Sweetwater High School District for failing to meet the needs of the "Forgotten Minority" of Mexican-American students. National City labor organizer Fred Martinez created IMPACT that enlisted Mexican-Americans in Lyndon Johnson's Great Society anti-poverty programs. Victor Salandini was a Catholic priest in San Ysidro who organized farmworkers into the first chapter of AWOC in San Diego county and led a strike of tomato workers in 1965, the first such strike in the South Bay. He inspired the creation of Mexican-American organizations such as MAYA and MECHA in colleges and high schools to push for social change. Cesar Chavez inspired waves of student activism throughout California with his marches and boycotts. In April, students from San Diego schools joined the residents of Barrio Logan in an occupation of land under the Bay Bridge to create a "Chicano Peoples Park" like students had done in Berkeley on "Bloody Thursday" in 1969 to create a People's Park. In March at Southwestern College students held a sit-in like Mario Savio had done at Berkeley in 1964. 1970 a coach in the National City Junior High School kicked a Mexican-American student and was forced to resign. Students at Castle Park High School staged the district's first student strike in 1969 and demanded reforms. The Civil Rights movement gave a voice to Mexican-Americans who no longer remained a silent minority. The Vietnam war was escalating and causing protests and moratoriums in schools across the country. Montgomery High School was born in an era of social turmoil. Montgomery High School at Beyer and Palm Ave.
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