Julian Nava was the first Mexican American on the LAUSD board. In 1980, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to serve as ambassador to Mexico.
, two years after tens of thousands of Mexican American students in his school district walked out of high schools to demand educational reforms.
“I could have slipped through writing books for other scholars to read or chosen the quiet life of a tenured professor or combine both,” Nava told the UCLA audience. One of the leaders of the 1968 student walkouts, Victoria Castro, remembers criticizing Nava at the time.
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