Museum or archive
Frank Romero's Death of Rubén Salazar
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Social movements · 29 August 1970Open File evidence →
The National Chicano Moratorium of 1970
Laguna Park, now Ruben F. Salazar Park · United States
Why editors use it hereSmithsonian account of Salazar's reporting role, Silver Dollar Café location, and fatal tear-gas projectile.
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Quick read
On 29 August 1970, an estimated twenty to thirty thousand people marched through East Los Angeles against the Vietnam War and the disproportionate burden borne by Mexican American communities.
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Trigger and conditions
Marchers arrived at Laguna Park for speeches and music.
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Uncertainty
Attendance estimates range from about 20,000 to 30,000.
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Why it matters
The event holds a mass democratic march and a violent dispersal in the same frame.
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