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America is changing authority is being questioned. Established values challenged. For those on the outside, it means new hope, the birth of a new age. For others, it is a threat. California Legislature has understudy nearly 100 bills to control protests. Those who prefer the status quo want

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the law to keep the lid on tight. But those who have known poverty and discrimination and denial of hope no longer are remaining silent. They feel their time has count Tonight. What will happen to Carlito? A report on the rising expectations of California's three million Spanish

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surnamed citizens. This is assignment for the award winning report to the West, produced in the community interest by the documentary department of K R. O. N. T. V. Mm. Like other Americans, the Spanish speaking have had to move from the country to the city to find

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work. In Santa Clara County, many men are still agricultural workers picking prunes, strawberries and other crops. But this work is seasonal. There's never enough money to meet a family's needs. Welfare payments or food stamps may keep hunger away, but they're no substitute for steady work at

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good wages. Sometimes a calamity such as a tornado knocks out the electricity. A city inspector says the house must be rewired. But when a man has no job, who is going to pay for it? Weeks passed. The only illumination is from a lantern, the problems of

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Spanish surnamed Californians air embodied in the kind of homes in which some are forced to live. Family of nine, sharing two rooms. Father, ill and unemployed tortillas and frijoles prepared on a two burner unit. Hopes of parents everywhere are for better lives for their Children. In

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Spanish speaking families, particularly Children are regarded with a special warmth and closeness. Without money for luxuries or diversions, Children become the joy and sustenance of life, source of love and laughter. Often they're called by diminutive Carlito rock Elita Carmencita. But hope unrewarded has a way of

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turning to despair. Schoolbook promise of America as a land of opportunity marks those who have known a lifetime of unrelieved hardship. Yet one clings to the faith that for the Children, it will be better. Yeah, yeah, In

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almost every home, the picture of Robert Kennedy man who gave them hope, who seemed to care about Gilroy, a group of 14 Latin families obtained funding from the Farm Home Administration to build homes. A ranch style dwellings were occupied in late 1968 while the home's air

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a source of pride to the families who occupied them, true satisfaction has not yet come. All would rather be at work than sitting at home drinking coffee on a rainy winter afternoon. In some areas of San Jose, large numbers of Mexican Americans live in urban poverty.

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Their former skills there have no help to them, and many have not had an opportunity to learn new ones that will ease the transition to city life. But the Spanish speaking minority has begun to find articulate. Spokesman. One is Dr Juan Martinez, now preparing a book

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about Mexican Americans. Mexican Americans are coming into their own. They are not black, but they have similar problems, a matter of fact criteria for criteria. The Mexican American is worse off. That is, education, housing, income, health number in on welfare, the number of broken homes, the

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number in the prisons and so forth criteria for criteria the Mexican American in this country there, about 10 million in the southwestern states are worse off in the black their organizations have multiplied many times over in the last few years, realizing that only through organized effort

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can they express their wants and needs. And they're not being satisfied. There is only one Mexican American in the state Legislature. In California, for example, in a state where there are three million Mexican Americans, there are very few city councilman, very few county supervisors, very few

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members of boards of education in the local areas. The overt absence of the Mexican American participating in American democracy is the worst indictment against American democracy. It's not functioning for them. Echoes of the new militancy of Spanish surnamed students at Bay Area colleges now have reached

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the high school level. Students at Mission High recently brought their grievances to the San Francisco Board of Education, and it's just putting us deeper in the hole. You know, you can't, um, you can't try to educate somebody you giving a complex to, you know, because they

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just don't work. You never get no place people here Board of Education that can do it for us way if you people do it for us aboard and the school administration have taken the demands under advisement. Roberto Vargas, a youth worker, graduated from Mission High School

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in 1958. Well, Azaz, you probably have noticed that has a dropout rate of about what 0.2? I think it is. Yushin High Schools is 12.7, which shows the, uh, large, uh, numbers there. E think also, if you'll notice that the daily attendance records show that close

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to 400 to 500 students are missing every day, uh, one starts to think, you know, wonder what causes thes people to stay away from school. I said the education teachers, it's it themselves. There is a problem. It has been said only half jokingly that there soon,

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maybe pickets in the Head Start program. Spanish surnamed teachers and social workers in the mission say the grammar schools are overcrowded and inadequate. Some Children are bussed far from their homes because there's no room in nearby schools. Any vacant lot can become a school through the

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installation of a new portable classrooms. But despite the need, little has been done in a factory. Before I came here, I don't forget, I'd worked. Theme mission English Language Center operates in a booth school organized in 1965 now has an enrollment of more than 400. The

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Obr Eros, a union of Mexican American laborers, founded the school and obtained a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity to finance it. Most of the men and women learning English work during the day and attend the classes at night in the faith that it believed

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them to better jobs way. There are classes for beginners and advanced students and a language laboratory for individual practice way words had left for the time. This'll program is separate from the Board of Education adult classes in English for the foreign born mostly for Spanish and

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Chinese speaking persons. Dalton. How It of the Adult division of the San Francisco Board of Education, says another half million dollars is urgently needed to provide MAWR English classes on any given day. About 5000 Spanish speaking persons are taking English instruction through adult education. But 20,000

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Maura waiting How it says we cannot keep up with the inflow. Do I need every day e get up every day? Do I dress center Day e walk every day? Very good, Mrs. Dina Boost Eo, a native of Nicaragua, is a family health aide at the

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UC Medical Center in San Francisco. E and I hear about new career from employment office I get involved in the program on, and they made me, uh, possible for continue my started in my training hearing. Use America Center sends Toe Arriba Juntos and Dr Finn, director

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of pediatric clinic. Now I employing from you See from 8 a.m. To 3 30 each day, Mrs Bossio interviews mothers concerning their Children with Spanish speaking mothers. She talks to them in their native tongue. Mrs. Castillo works closely with doctors and nurses in the busy clinic.

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Twice a week in the evening, she attends classes at the University of San Francisco. New Careers Program was started by an organization in the mission called Arriba Juntos, which means upward together it means a brighter future for a radio Cabello. He had been working for a

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printing company but was dissatisfied. Now he's learning to operate equipment to test pulmonary functions. At ST Mary's Hospital, the thieves program initially began to aid. The Spanish speaking is now open to everyone, A to Catholic social service agency on Mission Street. Young ladies in the new

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careers program are learning how to assist social workers in office procedures and in making family visits. Officials of the agency say the young women are at their best when dealing directly with families who need help and understanding. Another is the Latino local development company, which was

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organized to promote business ventures in the Spanish speaking community. Ben Rivera of Arriba Juntos as we're closely with Montgomery Street bankers and attorneys and government officials to get the development underway, we started by looking at our community and seeing what's happening to the businesses there since

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I did a study last summer in the business in 24th Street and found out that they were deteriorating this year. We saw that this was this was still taking place. So we went toe Mr Straw's in the rial, director of the Small Business Administration, to ask

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what could be done in the community. One of the reasons why nothing had been done in the community, he felt, was because there wasn't a tool in which the federal government could funnel funds and expertise into the community. This thing has been done by the development

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of the Latino local development Company, this local development company has as one of his projects the development off from 200 to a 400 housing unit business complex that would allow the people Spanish surname people in the community to live there, as well as to enjoy some

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of its some of the profits for some of the business in the community. UH, another of the projects that this local, the Latino local development company, hopes to pursue with the help of the Small Business Administration is the development of 24th Street in tow, a mecca

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for tourists that would be able to show the, um, uh, citizens of the United States the contribution that the Spanish, um, that the Spanish community has given to San Francisco. Well up until the time that I met Ben Rivera, we had been working on this project

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in Sacramento, which I can point to here with some pride. This was developed by the Spanish speaking community in Sacramento. It's note will be known as Plaza Day last Flores, and we look for its completion to be sometime in December. Now here is where the community

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with our assistance has called on its own resource is to develop a project that will not only encompass commercial features as well as the entertainment facilities of a auditorium and so forth. But it will also be an enhancement to the community itself in creating a center

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of Spanish speaking activity. And it could be an extreme benefit from a tourist point of view. And this is really what I envisioned could happen in the Mission district. Better jobs are the byproduct of better education. More than 70% of the student body at San Jose

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High School have Spanish surnames. How many of them go on to college will have a profound effect on the future of the Latin community Santa Clara County and studied to be a teacher, Spanish teacher and history teacher. But I feel that I need some help, Uh,

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from for monetary wise now, what kind of opportunities opportunities can three agency offered for me or something? Well, the our agency really does not offer opportunities. We provide the information, and then you proceed to apply wherever that program may exist. Now, there are many opportunities to

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go to school, even if you do not have the income. If your family cannot help you, uh, there is the work study program where you work and earn Theis expenses that you're going. Thio Lino Look. The money is the head of the Mexican American Community Services

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Agency in San Jose. Counsel students on how they can continue their education. Counseling of this kind. Help Oscar Terraza enrolled at the University of Santa Clara, where he's a freshman. He lives in a dormitory on campus but often visits his mother and sister for a home

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cooked meal. What has any kind of will or drive at all? There are many opportunities to go to college. You need a borrow money, or there will be grant federal loans. Scholarships. Uh, most colleges now are open arms to help minority the Chicano or the black.

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They're all out to help you, so all you have to do is ask or even knock on their door. And if one wishes to pursuit a college education, there's no reason to stop him now. Education means so much to the Spanish community that when David Sanchez

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was named to serve on the San Francisco Board of Education, the first Mexican American to do so, the obre does organized and entertainment in his honor. Latino Americana. Thank you very much for coming this evening. One major problem we have in the mission is the right

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of our Children to speak Spanish in the schools at all levels. I know because I've gone through the schools and I've suffered in reference to my Spanish. To maintain a language is to be part of yourself. Our schools here in the city of San Francisco must

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reflect the culture of the Latino Americana. Here in the city of San Francisco this evening, the Latin community, the friends who have come here tonight share with me and my family as we watch the culture of the Latino Americana here in San Francisco. I would hope

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that in the future, thes events which you will see this evening will become a very meaningful part of our educational system, not just for an activity here in our own community, but in other communities throughout the city of San Francisco and through every single school, every

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single high school elementary, right through the city college. The Latino has much to contribute. We have been excluded in curriculum. We have been excluded in the number of Latin American teachers and counselors and administrators and we together we together as a people latinoamericanos can work together

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to ensure that we all have quality education. Thank you very much. No, Louise. Each Egoyan was the master of ceremonies for an evening of singing, dancing and poetry in the style of many Latin countries. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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e e. And I think that that's nothing new. Recently, a special kind of handshake has become popular among men in the mission. After taking each other's hands firmly there re clasped in an upward motion, recognition of a

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common heritage. Ah, feeling that has been growing for a long time has suddenly crystallized among California's Spanish speaking citizens on that can mean a happier manana for all the Carlitos born into poverty and second class citizenry. Today, the goals of this newly organized minority, which calls

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itself Sarasa, might be summarized in one sentence. They want control over their own destiny, E O