Fifty years ago this month, students from the San Marcos High School and Goodnight Jr. High School walked out of their classes as part of a boycott against the schools for not cooperating with the students’ list of grievances. Above, a headline from the San Marcos Daily Record covering the walkout. Daily Record photo by Alyssa Gonzales. Below, La Otra Voz — a semi-monthly newspaper publication that highlighted and informed the Mexican American communities of the Hays, Comal, Caldwell and Guadalupe counties — cover the boycott. Scanned copy from the San Marcos Public Library archives
50 YEARS LATER: A look back at San Marcos’ school walkout
Fifty years ago this month, students from San Marcos High School and Goodnight Junior High School walked out of their classes as part of a boycott against the schools for not cooperating with the s