On December 9, 1969, 500 Chicano students in Crystal City, Texas, began a protest in the form of a walkout and boycott. The students were upset over the discriminatory treatment they were receiving at the hands of their local educational system’s administration and school board. Although the boycott only lasted a little over a month, ending on January 6, 1970, it had a monumental impact. The fact that the students in Crystal City stuck together in a boycott organized by the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) helped bring awareness to the extreme discrimination the students were forced to undergo daily. In fact, as the number of students increased, eventually numbering more than 2,000, neighboring cities also began to engage in the movement. This brought about the establishment of the La Razo Unida Party, which would broaden the focus of the discrimination Mexican Americans were facing.