Richard Cruz, leader of Catolicos Por La Raza, speaks to protesters at a demonstration against police brutality in front of the LASD East Los Angeles Station.
Romero memorializes Rubén Salazar, a Los Angeles Times journalist and key chronicler of the Chicano civil rights movement. After covering the Chicano Moratorium of 1970, an anti-Vietnam War demonstration, Salazar stopped at the Silver Dollar Café in…
National Chicano Moratorium gathered more than 30,000 activists, students, families, and their children to the march down Whittier Blvd. in East Los Angeles, August 29, 1970.