•     Blanca Estella Garza and Frank Martinez were children of farm workers. Their families moved from Texas to the Pacific NW when they were young. • Frank remembers how schools in the Yakima Valley in the 1960s made Hispanic children feel inferior and ashamed of their heritage. He talks about the school policy of “assimilation”—the idea that children should set aside Hispanic culture and identity. The Chicano movement would fight against this concept.