Salazar Park
Park in Los Angeles, California, United States
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Ruben F. Salazar Park (formerly Laguna Park) is a park in East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. The park is located at 3864 Whittier Boulevard, about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Downtown Los Angeles, and managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.
Laguna Park was renamed Ruben F. Salazar Park in honor of the journalist Ruben F. Salazar, who was murdered by East LA police enforcement in Silver Dollar, a coffee shop near the park, during the 1970 National Chicano Moratorium march. Salazar was a well-known journalist for the Los Angeles Times; he leveraged his profession to amplify the Chicano social justice movement. The park is a historical site of Chicano activism against Mexican-American participation in the Vietnam War. Currently, Salazar Park continues to serve as a Latiné community landscape and recreational site, offering diverse amenities and artistically reflecting, through indoor and outdoor murals, Latiné resilience and the continued fight for justice.
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