Salazar Park
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Ruben F. Salazar Park is a park in East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The park is located at 3864 Whittier Boulevard, about 2 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles, and managed by the Los
Photograph of "The Wall That Speaks, Sings, and Shouts," a work by community muralist Paul Botello. This mural is located on the exterior wall of the Salazar Park recreation center.
Chicano Moratorium
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The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-
Salazar Park
…honor of the journalist Ruben F. Salazar, who was murdered by East LA police enforcement in Silver Dollar, a coffee shop near the park, during the 1970 National Chicano Moratorium march. Salazar was a well-known journalist for the Los Angeles Times; he leveraged his profession to amplify the Chicano social justice movement. The…
1969 Moratorium pinback button
Mexican-American Marines in Vietnam, ca. 1970-1972 23.3% of all Southwestern Marine Corps casualties had distinctive Spanish surnames
Aerial view of the August riots