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Mexican American Group MEChA Eyes Name Change Amid Furor

MEChA, a Mexican American student group founded 50 years ago at the end of the turbulent 1960s, is considering a name change, highlighting the divisions between older civil rights leaders and college activists who are shunning traditional modes of ethnic identity. At a meeting Sunday in Los Angeles, student leaders...

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