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Heather Cox Richardson 8/28/25

CHICANO MOVEMENT 1960’s

[Ruben] Salazar : “I think we are in a revolution. I think the United States is traditionally a revolutionary country…We are going to overthrow some of our institutions, but in the way that Americans have always done it: through the ballot, through public consensus. That’s a revolution. That is a real revolution.”

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August 28, 2025

On August 29, 1970, journalist Rubén Salazar died instantly when Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy Thomas Wilson fired an 8-inch bullet-shaped tear gas projectile into the back of his head.

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