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Mar 29, 2006 · Another was award-winning filmmaker Moctesuma Esparza, who was indicted for his role in organizing the walkouts. He is now executive producer of a new HBO film about the 1968 protests simply...
Moctesuma Esparza (born March 12, 1949) is an American producer, entertainment executive, entrepreneur and community activist. He is the chief executive officer of Maya Cinemas, a theater chain servicing to the United States Latino audience.
Mar 2, 2018 · On March 1, 1968, about 250 students led by drama kids upset that the principal canceled an upcoming performance of Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park tried to walk out of Wilson High School in Los...
Mar 29, 2006 · An award-winning film producer and community activist, Esparza helped organize the 1968 walkout and was arrested and jailed along with 12 others for conspiracy to disturb the peace. The mass student walkouts this week across California and other states are not the first of their kind.
Discover how Moctesuma Esparza and a coalition of teenagers protested the unequal treatment of Chicano students in their school by organizing the 1968 East L...
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As Moctezuma Esparza, now famous filmmaker, recalls, “The primary condition was expecting that the Chicano youth could not achieve.” Before 1968, Chicanos were a people without professionals. We had no doctors, teachers, administrators, lawyers.
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Jul 25, 2019 · Moctesuma Esparza, now owner of Maya Cinemas, belonged to a group of high-performing students who gathered regularly in the basement of the Church of the Epiphany in East Los Angeles to discuss literature and social justice. It was in this church, led [...]
