1925 | San Antonio Junior College founded. | | |
1954 | | | Brown V. Board of Education declares "seperate but equal" unconstitutional. |
1955 | San Antonio College and St. Philips College are desegregated. First two African American students enroll in summer classes at SAC in June 1955. | | |
1966 | | | July 4, 1966: Farmworkers begin historic march from Rio Grande Valley to Austin |
1967 | | MAYO is formed at St. Mary's College. | |
1968 | | Maldef is founded in San Antonio, Texas. | March 3, 1968 - L.A. School Walkouts |
| | La universidad de los Barrios is founded. | |
1969 | Students organize a moratorium at San Pedro Park to protest the Vietnam war. Around 500 people attended. | | El Plan de Santa Barbara and MEChA are created in San ta Barbara, California. |
1970 | | January 17, 1970: Raza Unida Party Forms | |
| April 10, 1970: Jose Angel Gutierrez speaks at SAC. | | |
| April 24, 1970: SAC student, Jose Luis Rodriguez, submits a request to Student Council for approval of a MAYO chapter on campus. | | |
| May 7, 1970: SAC Students demonstate in response to the killing of four students at Kent State University. | | |
| | June 19, 1970: The first issue of the local Chicano Newspaper, the Chicano Times, is printed. Founder and Editor of the paper is Jose Luis Rodriguez, a SAC student. | |
| a Mexican American History Course, taught by Professor Johnny McCain begins in the fall. | | |
| November 20, 1970: A MEChA chapter is organized at SAC and approved by Student Council in December. | | |
1971 | Rosie Castro, William Benavides and Mario Compean speak at SAC. Event sponsored by SAC Young Democrats | | |
| SAC student Felipe Reyes and art Professor Mel Casas create Con Safos, a Chicano art group. | | July 1: 26th Amendment ratified, lowering voting age to 18. |
| Carlos Guerra, MAYO national chair, speaks at SAC to a group of 100 after an invitation from SAC MEChA | | |
| November: Black Student Union is approved by Student Representative Assemblage as an offical SAC organization. (After 1.5 years and 5 attempts) | | |
1972 | SAC MEChA sposors a voter registration event on campus. | | Ramsey Muniz runs for Texas Governor under Raza Unida Party |
| October: Ramsey Muniz speaks at SAC. Evented hosted by SAC MEChA | | Farah Pants Strike in El Paso, Texas leads to a national Boycott |
| SAC Student Representative Assemblage votes to support the United Farm Workers by boycotting lettuce. The assemblage also agrees to send a letter to Our Lady of the Lake University, asking that a Mexican American president replace the current, retiring president. | | |
1973 | The SRA is visited by a Farah boycotter who seeks the assemblages support for the strikers and boycott. | | |
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1974 | March 22, 1974: the SAC chapter of UMAS holds its first meeting on campus. | | Ramsey Muniz runs for Texas Governor a 2nd time. |
| The Chicano Times reports on the firing of three Chicano Special Services staff members | | |
| UMAS students running for SRA form the Raza Joven Ticket in order to follow new SRA protocol in which candidates cannot campaign using a campus organization name. | | |
| November 8, 1974: YSA holds a rally in front of Moody Learning Center, protesting the deportation of undocumented workers in the United States. | | |
| The SAC SRA passes a reolution in support of the Farah Boycott. | | |
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1978 | | | In the Regents of UC California V. Bakke case, the supreme court rules affirmitive action constitutional, but quota systems unconstitutional. |
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1980 | | | Reagen Administration begins. |
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