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| Cesar Chavez, Duane Campbell Sacramento, 1972. |
On Thursday May 19, the Quality Instructional Materials committee of the California
Board of Education made a decision to
include the history of Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and numerous other Chicano
leaders and labor leaders in the textbooks for all children in
California.
Because of
California’s large size and market, what goes into California textbooks also
goes into textbooks around the nation.
Many have
participated in this effort. In the last decade It has been a primary
effort working with Chicano scholars through the Mexican American Digital
History project. We achieved the change by overcoming the inertia and by
working on the California commissions and specific legislators.
This is a major
step forward since for many, 51 % of all California students are descendants of
Latinos. This is their doorway to civic participation- seeing
themselves in the curriculum as a part of history. We have been working on this since 1986.
Duane Campbell
campd22702@gmail.com
When we are
really honest with ourselves, we must admit that our lives are all that
really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what
kind of people we are. ..I am convinced that the truest act of courage..is to
sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice.
Cesar Chavez
(1927-1993)
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