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Zara Fitzgerald ’21
Zara Fitzgerald ’21

The Chicano Movement

I learned about the history of the Chicanos, and their fight to get education reform and farmworkers' rights in California.

Learning about the Chicano movement helped me to understand how difficult is to gain rights when you are a minority in a big country like the USA. Zara Fitzgerald ’21

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Founded in 1864, The Peddie School is a private, independent, coeducational boarding and day school for grades 9-12 and postgraduate located in Hightstown, N.J.
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