Photo Gallery >> Chapter 10: "Si Se Puede!"¹Chicana/o Activism in San Diego 1965-2000

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Alurista, author of El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. He was a San Diego State University student at the time, 1969.

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Rene Nunez, an activist and one of the first chairs of the Mexican American Studies Department at San Diego State University.

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Protesting the state’s plan to build a Highway Patrol substation instead of a promised park, 1970.

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The students and community begin building the park on their own in 1970.

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Ballet Folklorico at first Chicano Park Day (1971).

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The logo for Chicano Park was done by Carlotta Hernandez Terry in the 1970s.

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Community members beginning to work at Chicano Park April 22, 1970.

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Press conference by the Committee on Chicano Rights (CCR); pictured are Herman Baca, Bert Corona, Corky Gonzales, and others.