Bill Text: TX HR89 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Resolution 89 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Commemorating the 1969 Crystal City student walkout in 2016, the 47th anniversary of the event.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-02-25 - Reported enrolled [HR89 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HR89-Enrolled.html



	H.R. No. 89



	R E S O L U T I O N

	WHEREAS, The Crystal City student walkout, during the winter
	of 1969-1970, stands as one of the most successful Chicano boycotts
	in the history of the Southwest; and
	WHEREAS, Beginning in the spring of 1969, Chicano students at
	Crystal City High School began to present school authorities and
	the school board with a series of demands intended to redress a long
	history of discriminatory practices against Chicano students; on
	December 9, 1969, after the school board had repeatedly resisted
	dealing with the majority of the students' grievances, a number of
	Chicano students at the high school began a well-organized boycott
	of their classes; led by Severita Lara, Mario Trevino, and Diana
	Serna, the boycott grew daily and even spread to the junior high and
	elementary schools; by the time the schools closed for the
	Christmas holidays, between one-half and two-thirds of all the
	students in the city's public schools were boycotting their
	classes; and
	WHEREAS, The student walkout in Crystal City served as a
	galvanizing force in organizing the Chicano residents of that town
	and the surrounding area; the influence of the boycott became
	manifest not only in the fairer treatment that Chicano students
	received in the schools of Crystal City but in the dramatic new
	political power that Chicano citizens came to exercise in certain
	communities of South Texas; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas
	Legislature hereby commemorate the 47th anniversary of the 1969
	Crystal City student walkout and commend all who work to create a
	more just and inclusive society in the Lone Star State.

	Alonzo

	______________________________
	Speaker of the House

	I certify that H.R. No. 89 was adopted by the House on
	February 19, 2015, by a non-record vote.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House