Photograph of Bobby Duke Elementary School, in Coachella, California, part of the Coachella Valley Unified School District. Formerly named Dateland Middle School. The site of 1976 school walkouts organized by the Community Committee for Alternatives in Education (CCAE) protesting the mistreatment of Mexican-American students.
Powerfully illustrated through the lives of three Mexican/Chicana women - Ramona Medina, Socorro Gomez-Potter, and Yolanda Almaraz-Esquivel - "Educating Change: Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity" documents a history of Mexican women's migration and activism, and considers its …