The Center for Media, Democracy & Policy led an effort to request the U.S. Postal Service Selection Committee consider naming a stamp after Ruben Salazar. Salazar, a popular Los Angeles Times editor and columnist in the 1960s, had been shot down after covering a story on an anti-war rally that had become violent. more
Ruben Salazar, a pioneering Latino journalist who was killed in 1970 by a tear gas canister fired by a sheriff's deputy after an anti-war demonstration in Southern California, will be honored Tuesday with a commemorative U.S. postage stamp.
The stamp is to be unveiled in Washington, D.C., along with four other stamps recognizing courageous American journalists. In Los Angeles, where Salazar became
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current events
April 24 - June 15 Mon- Fri, 8 am to 3 pm
Exhibit of original items from the Ruben Salazar Collection at The Postal History Foundation Museum 920 N 1st Ave, Tucson, AZ
May 30, 31 Reel Rasquache Film:Â Festival of the U.S. Latino Experience in Film & Art Los Angeles, CA
June 1 Screening of the movie "Below The Fold" Luckman Intimate Theatre, California State University, Los Angeles
June 24 Screening of the movie "Below The Fold" at the McCormick Freedom Museum - Chicago, IL
"Ruben Salazar was a most uncommon man who fought mightily for the cause of a group of underprivileged common man - those of the economically deprived Mexican-American community... yet he spoke with a calm vigor that made his words all the more impressive and influential."
Below The Fold: The Pulitzer That Defined Latino Journalism.
This documentary tells the little known story of how, in 1984, a group of young journalists battled institutional prejudice to forever change the newspaper industry becoming the first Latinos to win the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s most prestigious award. more
Ruben Salazar Collection 
