I Am Walking

Research Article| September 01 2014 I Am Walking! Bobby Lee Verdugo, Bobby Lee Verdugo Robert “Bobby” Lee Verdugo is senior program and training specialist with the National Compadres Network, whose mission is to strengthen, rebalance, and/or redevelop the traditional “compadre” extended family system. The organization encourages and supports the positive involvement of Latino males as fathers, sons, grandfathers, brothers, compadres, partners, and mentors in their families and community. Bobby Verdugo was a student leader of the historic 1968 high school walkouts of East Los Angeles, and he was portrayed in the HBO movie Walkout, a docudrama about the walkouts. He attended UCLA and graduated from California State University, Los Angeles with a degree in social work. On May 20, 2011, Verdugo delivered the keynote speech for the sixteenth annual Latino Recognition Ceremony (Raza Graduation) at the University of Notre Dame. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar José Montoya José Montoya José Montoya was a poet, artist, community organizer, and Chicano-rights advocate. In 1970 he and fellow artists founded the Royal Chicano Air Force, a Sacramento-based collective dedicated to fostering the arts in the Chicano community and raising political awareness. He was a professor of art, photography, and education at California State University, Sacramento and a Sacramento poet laureate. Montoya died in September 2013. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Aztlán (2014) 39 (2): 167–169. https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2014.39.2.167 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bobby Lee Verdugo, José Montoya; I Am Walking!. Aztlán 1 September 2014; 39 (2): 167–169. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/azt.2014.39.2.167 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAztlán Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2014 The Regents of the University of California2014 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content

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