From ‘Chicano blowout’ to blowup: Turmoil over MEChA name change was decades in coming

Joe Rodriguez was a teenager when he first embraced the slur. For years, Mexican Americans of low social status like him were called Chicanos.

In March 1968, the 15-year-old sophomore joined hundreds of other Garfield High School students in a protest against discrimination and unequal conditions…

Source: Los Angeles Times