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Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) started by Mario Compean, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Ignacio Garcia, all students at St. Mary's University. Student leaders from Edgewood High School and even former Central Catholic High School students contributed ideas and participatory support. School administrators appointed Pablo Ortiz as Student Council President after Homer Garcia was deemed too disruptive and radical. Later, school administrators bowed to student and community pressure, conceding to demands. Even though a massive walkout was averted, some students did stage their protest march and left campus during lunch. Ultimately, the legacy benefited students so that more scholarships were awarded. The 1969 graduate, Homer Garcia, forged alliances with other campus leaders and graduated from the University of Texas and received a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. Other alumni from that year went on to author books and became professors and writers (Rafael Castillo, Ignacio Garcia, David O. Martinez and Daniel Hernandez). Rafael C. Castillo's (2023) "Dostoevsky on Guadalupe Street: Writings from the Edge" highlights some of those events and insight into the culture of social protest activity from a literary perspective.
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of the first vocational schools in the westside of San
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