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Cesar Chavez — Part 3

115 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Aug 15, 1968 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Cesar Chavez · 106 pages OCR'd
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so dw (anew, Teh ee ed: {idount Clipping in Space Below) -INDICATES — + NEWSPAPER OF ORGANIZATION MAYO Gets Valley Footheld 1 have a wrem feud! [s ~ really mw friend?” This notaiuoa in large hard- vtten print is one of a number such remarks sccticred roughoui an “underground” sos page newspaper, Huy vaday), peblished by Seuth exas MAYO | (Mexivan aerican Youth Orgingathin) mores inthe maner = writicn iwth Enwisa and Suansa dicate MAYO aes the wnomgs @ a siroay joathold mong YOLCN in tne Valtey. wae oo atticle | oe@apicins ihe aahizanon and reveals how despread MAYO is in the ley: “MAYO ts ane ony Zaniztiion un the eative Valley uistmz of only ihe “esivan- Ps a junior high Wai we students os sorcading ndlv throvchout Swoin Texas, TRIS wItanlaton was qnushed for Mie so Purpose uniiing tre Meak 1 Srican people ac shuaigs vm that there are wass they a omer berber wages and a "er eucation. Mosily. MAYO soentractes in) bringing out fem chuana vouths as well hogrown - aw, Valles Uoans ra cally in WO are ssa Juan, 2aarr, augurs. Eisa + Edcoucn, sere MAYO was achive in lhe cent osiudent oboveotty La 2a, Weslaco, Mercedes and .-slon."* Notably absent from those “ed as McAllen, largest. city Hidaizge County. The Me Auden 200.5 have a policy agaost belonging io orsiasntions such as the Sub - Debs, and this ‘policy presumably would apply to MAYO as well, Stories in the paper indicate that the niovenient ix ectting support from some zToups im the Valley. One story repurts a MAYO fund - raising dance held in Phar where the “parish Ach oikatacd free ram St More: na Aaotoer reports @ MAY held mm the San Juan Caiioue School auditorium. Some of ihe stories attack alleged = discrimination. One, conceming use of Spanish in schonis. charges: “Turn everything around and sec how tiey (angios) iike it, For vou Mexican + American ocaple gut there that already whink and wart to Oo anglos who ask, Way Spaush? Here's ike rea- sen: Anglos. We are so clasely related t0 Mexthans and are om ocomast with its people eversdiay, We hear the lanuuuse evervday and is al around us. H's our native tomzae und we're proud of it. So why dotsn't the angio iearn it. TH tell vou why. Revause he thinks it's dirty. And because it comes from the Mexican + American which they thax are dirty and sav. fn oher words we are fat gon enciich fur them, That ts, ac- cording to them.” Anuther story raps alleged questioning of absentee note< at Prarr - San Juan - Alamo iigh School. It charges, “How about the angios? It is belicved that they have it easier than the chicanos. They may be asked such quesuions, but afler Lise “— | J Govsieecly cult @ Wem and franciy simile, Why be tnegual to sturtents? “Showld we call these acls .of our ad-; nunisiralions mide acts? Have! the. acied so because they 103° like faverilism or is at some , forn of discrimination?” ; \nuither osterv idles of nwo Pest Mextvun + American: youlls KHiod tm a recent 'ain Wreol. item tasks, Why dial tne Scho T mol pravids & ninPeucs Siiiee Meany OF thos: vehiha wWitinut having to be pressured by incit fellow student.’" . A cartoon in the paper shows: a panel of four pictures ar 3% cownoy wilh these caus] “First we gave in and let the:n 20 10 schuol with us. thea ws gave in und let thom eat .§ the sare place we co. (hea we gave in and ket Cen tua for Office, Fiue! Next thing yuu know these ii] Meaicars will: want io govern tnemscives, lag unricesul Wile wretuiaes Another article written bv Jose \nzel Guberrez, wad is Mientiued 2s a graguale siudeul In coversiment and oh MAYO, charges the “esiia!ish- Ment * in Tesas is cuntraied by “gringas.”" Te the artwie he charges Mons an - Americens ate reed In fie up Ther wiukure. stage and cremtiy as inem lo accopied as an Amerccaa. “Fortunately for ihe establishment." be sais, “the Mexican - American, the olack peopis and the angles keep on Swallowing” ideas pushed by. the establishment. ; Ve adds, “We will join torved aS soup as Meucan - Americuy: +2
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