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COPYRIGHT 2001 Transaction Publishers, Inc.
By Ernesto B. Vigil. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. xii + 487 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
The brutal and suspicious deaths of Eddie Romero in the summer of 1962 and Alfred Salazar in March 1964 by Denver police officers sparked the origins of the Chicano Movement in Colorado. The twin issues of police brutality and racism against Mexican Americans, or Chicanos, as they called themselves, became the banners of social and political justice for groups representing the Denver chapters of the American G.I. Forum and Los Voluntarios. In 1966, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, a former boxer, businessman, and Democratic party official, took the leadership role and established the male-dominated organization known as the Crusade for Justice and turned it into a political and civil rights organization. The Crusade published its in-house newspaper, El Gallo (The Rooster), and used it, according to Ernesto B. Vigil, to...
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