UCLA Chicano Studies Hunger Strike & Protest

In 1993, eight students, one high school student, and one faculty member protested Chancellor Charles E. Young's rejection of establishing a Chicana/o Studies Department by engaging in student activism via 14 days of civil disobedience, and a non-violent hunger strike on the UCLA campus, resulting in the eventual creation of the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies in 2007.