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U.S. Stamp Commemorates Chicano Martyr


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"Lost in the controversy over his death and the violent repression of the National Chicano Moratorium rally (attended by 30,000 people) against the Vietnam War – was the historic nature of [Ruben Salazar's] journalism. Clearly, he was a journalist before his time and what he reported in the El Paso Herald Post and the Los Angeles Times, from 1955 through 1970, still seems relevant to this day. He covered an unpopular war; Vietnam. He also covered Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the upheaval in Mexico in the 1960s. He also wrote about the anti-war movement, black-brown relations, police repression, the border, the inhumane treatment of migrants, the trouble in the lettuce fields, and social and educational inequalities...

While not an activist, his journalism brought the emerging Chicano civil rights movement to the nation’s attention. He defined for the nation – in language that mainstream society understood – what it meant to be Chicano."
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