Lucas Cruz, Chairman of the Chicano Park Steering Committee joins Step Off! Radio to talk about the @chicanopark_mus, the struggle to make the museum a reality, and what the museum means to the residents of Barrio Logan.
Since the rise of the Chicano Movement in the late 60s, Chicano artists have used a variety of mediums to express historical counter-narratives, encourage political activism, and educate communities. Fifty-three years ago on April 22, 1970, in San Diego, California the residents of Logan Heights, alongside a coalition comprised of hundreds of students, community activists, Brown Berets, and…