Chicano organizer Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, center, speaks during a lunch gathering at the Church of the Epiphany in 1968. (Photo courtesy of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center) Lydia Lopez was demonstrating in a picket line in 1968 to support Mexican American educator Sal Castro, who had been removed from the classroom after participating in student walkouts protesting racism in East LA schools, when UCLA professor Juan Gómez-Quiñones told her of a party at the Church of the Epiphany. Lopez loved parties, so she decided to go. The Episcopal parish, located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, was embellished with