Frank Del Olmo was a voice for Hispanic people during times of empowerment and change in education and policies. He used his voice through the means of journalism through his ability to write.

Olmo was a CSUN student who wrote for The Daily Sundial. He covered stories of events that marked CSUN’s history forever.

After college, He continued his career in journalism and became a write and later on an editor for the Los Angeles Times. He particularly put an emphasis on the social movements concerning Hispanics in California during that time. One event he reported and wrote about was the school walkouts in Los Angeles during the 1960s.

When reporting about this huge event that impacted the lives of both students and teachers, Olmo used various resources to bring as much knowledge to the public as possible concerning the event. He implemented elements that included meeting and speech recordings, court documents and official documentations that were all connected to the people involved in the protest.

One individual that Olmo had a lot of information about in his archives was Sal Castro, a teacher at Lincoln High School in Los Angeles at that time. Castro was a huge activist for the Latino population, as he believed in the rights of education for all. He expressed in various how Hispanic children deserve the same treatment as other students of different backgrounds in regards to their intake in knowledge and education.

Olmo investigated the issues regarding the walkouts and gained every perspective possible in order to cover the story. Although Olmo’s emphasis and focus was on the Hispanic movement, he ensured his writing was never biased but rather well informed.

Not only did he consider what Sal Castro, the high school teacher had to say in these regards but he looked into what the students had to say and what they desired. Hispanic students in particular wrote out proposals to the board of education in what they wanted for themselves and how they would fight for their education. Olmo had these proposals and used them in his writing.

Olmo also unexpectedly had the response in which the school board and the board of education issues committee had in response to what the teachers and students were asking of them. Olmo did not restrain himself to only have a one-sided in writing his story. He had an all around perspectives and points to truly unravel the truth regardless of who or what he stood for.