Chicano Park
Freeway-pylon park born from a twelve-day community occupation, now covered in the nation's largest outdoor mural collection.
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About this audio guide
On the morning of April 22, 1970, a community college student named Mario Solis spotted a bulldozer clearing land in Barrio Logan that had been promised to the neighborhood as a park, and found it was being graded instead for a California Highway Patrol parking lot. The guide follows what happened as word spread: students walking out of class, neighbors climbing down with shovels to plant cactus and flowers in the torn-up soil, and a standoff with police that held for twelve straight days. You'll hear about the raid and arrests that followed that December, and the community picket that answered it. Look up at the murals climbing the freeway pylons around you as you listen.
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