When we visited the Jane Addams Hull House as a class, I was really drawn to the silkscreen prints hanging in the library by local artist Nicole Marroquin. A recent addition to the Hull House, these silkscreen prints tell the story of a student-led demonstration by the students at Harrison High in 1968 that was broken up by local police.

These largely Chicanx students felt they were invisible and did not see themselves in the Euro-centric history they were being taught. The faculty and staff were also majority white, and only spoke English. I feel like this kind of rhetoric should be encouraged in school, and children should feel safe. Instead they were beat over the heads with billy clubs while staging a protest in their own cafeteria. The students belonged there, not the policemen. The students negated their invisibility by reclaiming their school and education.