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Title: Committee for Justice for Jesse Salcido flier
Contributor: Committee for Justice for Jesse Salcedo
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969 April 4
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Collection on race, ethnicity and student activism
Rights Information: Copyright Unknown
Description: Scope/Content: Typed flier for Chicano Peace Rally at Fairmount Park, sponsored by the Committee for Justice for Jesse Salcido. Jesus "Jesse" Salcido was a Chicano high school student shot and killed by a Riverside Police Department officer on February 22, 1969
Type: text
Format: 1 flier
Form/Genre: fliers
Extent: 1 page
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2222x97
curivsc_ua133_001_003_027
Language: English
eng
Subject: Police shootings
Chicano movement
Civil rights demonstrations
Salcido, Jesus, Jr.
Committee for Justice for Jesse Salcido
Place: Riverside (Calif.)
Source: UA 133
Relation: Series 1. Campus issues and events
Location: Box 1, Folder 3
Transcription: Chicano Peace Rally. Fairmount Park in Riverside. Sunday, April 20th. 3:00 PM. Entertainment & Speakers. We have been held back too long. We are no longer satisfied to be second class citizens. We have seen the results of disunity reach its peak in the murdering of our children. Therefore, we will unite and will gain justice for a child, Jesse Salcido. To prevent further injustice, show your support by attending the Rally sponsored by the Committee for Justice for Jesse Salcido. Speakers include: Oscar Acosta, Salcido's attorney;Hank Ramirez, Chainnan of Committee for Justice for Jesse Salcido; Dr. Cota-Robles, professor at UCR; George Rivera President of Casa Blanca Men's Club; Rudy Rivera, student; Albert Marcus, Black Congress Representative; Roger Hille, teacher at Ramona High; speaker from Los Angeles.

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