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The 1970 moratorium was organized to be a peaceful protest to seek redress from the U.S. government. It turned into a riot by Los Angeles police officers.
By: Herman Baca Fifty years later, I can still vividly remember what happened to me personally and politically in Los Angeles, California on August 29, 1970. At the time, I was 27 years old, today I’m 77. Herman Baca In those 50 years, many persons I knew that marched in the Chicano Moratorium are no longer with us. In other words, “An era is slowly, but surely coming to an end.” In 1970 unlike 2020 La Raza was a minute minority, known to U.S. institutions as the, “Forgotten, silent & invisible minority,” today we number 70 million Chicanos/Mexicanos/Latinos. In 1970, thirty t...