The National Chicano Moratorium Anti-Vietnam War March and Ruben Salazar Inquest: 55 Years Later

Protesters marching on Whittier Boulevard at the National Chicano Moratorium Anti-Vietnam War March, August 29, 1970 in Los Angeles

By Ryan Reft It was late afternoon on August 29, 1970, when Rosalío Muñoz, chairman of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee (NCMC) stood before thousands of people under a hot southern California summer sun. He was briefly triumphant, having stewarded the nation’s largest ever Mexican American protest and the largest by a single ethnic group, […]

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