Natalie Rubalcava poses for a portrait in front of a historic Chicano mural across the street from Little People’s Park in Anaheim. She showed me a video on her cellphone of protesters who crashed a meet-and-greet to chant that she was corrupt while holding a banner that read “Natalie Rubal-cabal.” Dressed in jeans, fashionable sandals and a white T-shirt emblazoned …
It was a day that began with exuberance and then exploded in violence. The Chicano Moratorium, one former marcher said, “was a catalytic moment.” Judy Baca, then 23, was working as a roving art teacher for the Department of Recreation and Parks, holding workshops at Eastside community centers. The Moratorium “was a catalytic moment,” says Rita Gonzalez, a co-curator of …
