Salvador Buruel Castro, son of Salvador and Carmen (Buruel Zapata) Castro. Activist and educator. Founder of the Mexican-American Youth Leadership Conference in 1963, which continues to sponsor Chicano Youth Leadership Conferences. Portrayed by Michael Peña in the HBO film "Walkout" for his leadership in the Chicano student movement in East Los Angeles. Honored by the Los Angeles City Council, the National Hispanic Media Association, the California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE), Association of Mexican-American Educators (AMAE), and the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA). Father of two sons, husband of Charlotte Lerchenmuller. Sal Castro was a true hero in the fight for civil rights.
Rosary, 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, 2060 North Vermont Ave., L.A., CA 90027; Funeral Mass 9:30am Thursday, April 25, 2013 at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 West Temple, L.A., CA 90012. Interment to follow at Calvary Cemetery, 4201 Whittier Blvd., L.A., CA 90023. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sal Castro Foundation, 2631 Ivanhoe Dr., L.A., CA 90039.
Published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Sal Castro began teaching social studies in Eastside Los Angeles in the early 1960s, when public schools reinforced the city's social inequality. Not only did they exclude Mexican American students from college preparation courses, but they also steered them toward vocational careers and disregarded their disproportionate dropout rates.
In March 1968, Mexican American students walked out of five east L.A. schools, demanding bicultural and bilingual education and teachers, along with the end of vocational tracking. Soon, approximately 15,000 students from ten other schools joined in a multi-day protest that became known as the Chicano School Blowouts. For his role in instigating the blowouts, Castro was arrested on conspiracy charges. Eventually he was exonerated, reinstated to his position, and honored in 2010 when the school where he taught for forty-three years was renamed after him: Sal Castro Middle School.
Rosary, 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, 2060 North Vermont Ave., L.A., CA 90027; Funeral Mass 9:30am Thursday, April 25, 2013 at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 West Temple, L.A., CA 90012. Interment to follow at Calvary Cemetery, 4201 Whittier Blvd., L.A., CA 90023. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sal Castro Foundation, 2631 Ivanhoe Dr., L.A., CA 90039.
Published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Sal Castro began teaching social studies in Eastside Los Angeles in the early 1960s, when public schools reinforced the city's social inequality. Not only did they exclude Mexican American students from college preparation courses, but they also steered them toward vocational careers and disregarded their disproportionate dropout rates.
In March 1968, Mexican American students walked out of five east L.A. schools, demanding bicultural and bilingual education and teachers, along with the end of vocational tracking. Soon, approximately 15,000 students from ten other schools joined in a multi-day protest that became known as the Chicano School Blowouts. For his role in instigating the blowouts, Castro was arrested on conspiracy charges. Eventually he was exonerated, reinstated to his position, and honored in 2010 when the school where he taught for forty-three years was renamed after him: Sal Castro Middle School.
Salvador Buruel Castro, son of Salvador and Carmen (Buruel Zapata) Castro. Activist and educator. Founder of the Mexican-American Youth Leadership Conference in 1963, which continues to sponsor Chicano Youth Leadership Conferences. Portrayed by Michael Peña in the HBO film "Walkout" for his leadership in the Chicano student movement in East Los Angeles. Honored by the Los Angeles City Council, the National Hispanic Media Association, the California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE), Association of Mexican-American Educators (AMAE), and the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MECHA). Father of two sons, husband of Charlotte Lerchenmuller. Sal Castro was a true hero in the fight for civil rights.
Rosary, 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, 2060 North Vermont Ave., L.A., CA 90027; Funeral Mass 9:30am Thursday, April 25, 2013 at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 West Temple, L.A., CA 90012. Interment to follow at Calvary Cemetery, 4201 Whittier Blvd., L.A., CA 90023. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sal Castro Foundation, 2631 Ivanhoe Dr., L.A., CA 90039.
Published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Sal Castro began teaching social studies in Eastside Los Angeles in the early 1960s, when public schools reinforced the city's social inequality. Not only did they exclude Mexican American students from college preparation courses, but they also steered them toward vocational careers and disregarded their disproportionate dropout rates.
In March 1968, Mexican American students walked out of five east L.A. schools, demanding bicultural and bilingual education and teachers, along with the end of vocational tracking. Soon, approximately 15,000 students from ten other schools joined in a multi-day protest that became known as the Chicano School Blowouts. For his role in instigating the blowouts, Castro was arrested on conspiracy charges. Eventually he was exonerated, reinstated to his position, and honored in 2010 when the school where he taught for forty-three years was renamed after him: Sal Castro Middle School.
Rosary, 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, 2060 North Vermont Ave., L.A., CA 90027; Funeral Mass 9:30am Thursday, April 25, 2013 at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 West Temple, L.A., CA 90012. Interment to follow at Calvary Cemetery, 4201 Whittier Blvd., L.A., CA 90023. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Sal Castro Foundation, 2631 Ivanhoe Dr., L.A., CA 90039.
Published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Sal Castro began teaching social studies in Eastside Los Angeles in the early 1960s, when public schools reinforced the city's social inequality. Not only did they exclude Mexican American students from college preparation courses, but they also steered them toward vocational careers and disregarded their disproportionate dropout rates.
In March 1968, Mexican American students walked out of five east L.A. schools, demanding bicultural and bilingual education and teachers, along with the end of vocational tracking. Soon, approximately 15,000 students from ten other schools joined in a multi-day protest that became known as the Chicano School Blowouts. For his role in instigating the blowouts, Castro was arrested on conspiracy charges. Eventually he was exonerated, reinstated to his position, and honored in 2010 when the school where he taught for forty-three years was renamed after him: Sal Castro Middle School.
