In December 1972, Larry Gossett, Estela Ortega, and Roberto Maestas (top) celebrate the successful school occupation. Photograph by Tom Barlet / MOHAI
Words scrawled on a blackboard reveal the indignation behind the desperation, the root of the hurt. The reason why hundreds of activists slept on hardwood floors, trying to claim an abandoned schoolhouse as El Centro de la Raza, the Center for People of All Races: “Nobody has a right to the superfluous when somebody else lacks the necessary.”
Hastily scribbled on a whim or dutifully transcribed in chalk—those particulars are lost to time. What we do know is early that brisk October 11 morning in
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