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Ruben Salazar

Ruben Salazar (March 3, 1928 – August 29, 1970)[1] was a civil rights activist and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was the first Mexican journalist from mainstream media to cover the Chicano community.[2]

Ruben Salazar

March 3, 1928

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

August 29, 1970(1970-08-29) (aged 42)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Journalist and civil rights activist

1956–1970

Salazar was killed during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles, California. During the march, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Thomas Wilson struck and immediately killed Salazar with a tear-gas projectile. No criminal charge was filed, but Salazar's family reached an out-of-court financial settlement with the county.[2]

Early life[edit]

Born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, March 3, 1928, Salazar was brought to the United States by his family in 1929. Salazar began his U.S. naturalization process on October 15, 1947, when he submitted his application for a certificate of arrival and preliminary form for a declaration of intention of citizenship.

Salazar was a two-time winner of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Award and in 1965 was presented with an award from the Equal Opportunity Foundation.[15]

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In 1971, Salazar was posthumously awarded a special .[16]

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

After the controversy related to his death had subsided, Laguna Park, site of the 1970 rally and subsequent police action, was renamed in his honor.[17]

Salazar Park

Salazar is depicted under the name "Roland Zanzibar" in 's 1973 novel The Revolt of the Cockroach People.[18]

Oscar Zeta Acosta

In 1979, re-named its library in honor of Salazar. Subsequently, in 2002 the library moved into a new building, and the former library building was renamed Salazar Hall. [19]

Sonoma State University

In 1996, the in Washington, D.C., acquired the painting Death of Rubén Salazar, a 1986 oil on canvas by artist Frank Romero.[20]

Smithsonian American Art Museum

His death was commemorated in a by Lalo Guerrero titled "El 29 de Agosto".[21]

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A classroom building at (Cal State LA) was named for him in 1976. On October 12, 2006, Salazar Hall was rededicated with the unveiling of his portrait by John Martin.[22]

California State University, Los Angeles

On October 5, 2007, the announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk, Ruben Salazar, and Eric Sevareid.[23]

United States Postal Service

A documentary about Salazar by Phillip Rodriguez titled Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle was broadcast on television on April 29, 2014.[24][25]

PBS

History of the Mexican Americans in Los Angeles

List of journalists killed in the United States

Mario T. Garcia, ed., Ruben Salazar: ; Selected Writings, 1955-1970 (University of California Press, 1995).

Border Correspondent

Stamp of Salazar issued by the USPS

- video report by Democracy Now!

Salazar Remembered as Champion of Chicano Rights

Archived 2015-09-10 at the Wayback Machine at Sonoma State University Library

Ruben Salazar Collection

(documentary film)

Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle

Los Angeles Times articles by Salazar

Image of painting Death of Rubén Salazar at Smithsonian American Art Museum

Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Portrait of Ruben Salazar, East Los Angeles, California, 1970.

Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Image of Ruben Salazar interviewing civilians in Vietnam, 1965.