Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Latino High School Student walkout

The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund is established. It is the first legal fund supporting the civil rights of Mexican-Americans.

Also in 1968, participating Latino high school students in Los Angeles students walk out in protest for being punished for speaking Spanish in schools. They are severely punished for the walkouts and thirteen are arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and conspiracy. The walkouts result in policy change in the Los Angeles school district.