Ruben Salazar
Ruben Salazar was a reporter and columnist for The Times, as well as the news director at KMEX, L.A.’s pioneering Spanish-language television station. He was the city’s leading Latino media voice when he was killed in August 1970 by a sheriff’s deputy who shot a projectile into an East L.A. bar.
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A week ago today Vice President Agnew stood in a sea of television lights at the Century Plaza Hotel to announce the formation of a new national organization to promote business development among the nation’s 10 million Spanish speaking citizens.
Everyone has heard at least one story about being victimized by computer billing.
It was on March 18, 1969, that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors ordered that more Chicanos, blacks and members of other racial minorities be placed on the county payroll so as to give them a more meaningful participation in our county government.
Roberto Aragon goes to Harvard soon but intends to return and fight for what he calls a “Chicano Voting Rights Act.”
It takes a bold Mexican to address the Urban League and tell its members that too much attention is given blacks at the expense of Chicanos.
In matters of human rights there is nothing more beautiful than to see the System work.
Folk heroes arise of a need to articulate feelings unsung by conventionality.
A small group of Chicanos sat before a TV the Fourth of July to watch Honor America Day for the explicit reason of trying to determine why such events could bug them.
“This is the most perfect city in the world for an internal revolution, for a quick takeover by a small, well disciplined group.
During the massive East Los Angeles high school walkouts in 1968, board of education member Dr.