TheCenter916

One of the oldest non profit around. Serving the community of Sacramento for more than 60 years. Specializing in Chicano Arts and Culture, Youth Recreation!

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🎉💥We are excited to be apart of the next #bigdayofgiving #bdog2020 💥🎉 #SacramentoProud #Sacramento #nonprofit

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This Landmark designation truly validates all the efforts the community is still fighting for after nearly 47 years. @chicanopark_mus

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ensure that Chicano Park is for the people and maintained by the people.

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during the initial occupation continue to teach the rich history and culture of our people so that we can feel proud of ourselves and

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, and even a failed attempt to build a new Stadium adjacent to the community. It is very important to note the men and women who were there

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face of adversity. To this day the community of Logan Heights is in jeopardy—flanked with gentrification, profit motivated planning tactics

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This Landmark designation provides a great example of a community who fostered their dreams into reality and has not backed down in every

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and became the tipping point in our mutual relationships.” #chicanoPark

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felt invisible to the powers that be and that the “establishment of ChicanoPark brought pride and voice to our community

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Talamantez goes on to reiterate that many of the Chicano/Mexicano/Mexican-American residents prior to the establishment of #ChicanoPark

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tradition of the MexicanMasters #Rivera #Siqueiros #Orozco, documents our local Chicano/Mexican-American history & that of Chicanos in US"

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politically, and culturally. The Chicano Park Monumental Murals, created by internationally recognized master artists, following in the

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self-determination. We defined and honored our contributions towards the building of the City of San Diego—economically, socially,

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region and the Nation as a whole.” #Talamantez also iterates that the “commemoration recognizes the local Chicano community’s efforts at

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"Chicano Park listing as a National Landmark is a validation to the Chicano/Latino/Indigenous community of the San Diego/Tijuana Border

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rather it is reflective on the limited access these groups have had towards claiming, conserving, and preserving their social history.”

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ethnic and minority groups.” Galaviz goes on, “This does not indicate that ethnic minorities have not contributed to the making of the US;

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Galaviz “The inclusion of ChicanoPark as a NationalHistoricLandmark is important because today less than 8 percent of the 2,500 NHLrepresent

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with #MannyGalaviz, a UTexas graduate student and Chicano Park Steering Committee volunteer, to co-author and submit the National Landmark.

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The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013, a nomination put forth by #JosieTalamantez and in 2015 she worked