ABSTRACT
The 1960s was a time of great turmoil and political activism in the United States as well as in its schools. The 1970s, however, marked both a retreat from the conflict and activism of the 1960s and a period of reassessment and redirection for the nation. Before the war was finally settled through American abandonment of the conflict, the United States underwent cataclysmic uprisings on many of the nation's college campuses. Civil Rights and the Mexican American The success of the black Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s and 1970s was not lost on other heretofore oppressed or forgotten groups in American society. The subsequent experience of Mexican Americans, in Texas as in other states, was that in spite of legal rulings, their children continued to face segregation and other discrimination in public schools. Public Law 94-142 One of the most significant acts of educational legislation during the 1970s recognized the educational rights of Americans with disabilities.
