Sal Castro UCLA Campus | Mexican-American Activist | Protest

March 29, 2025
Sal Castro UCLA Campus, Salvador B. Castro the legendary Mexican American educator and activist, who led the 1968 high school walkouts in East Los Angeles, speaks during a night protest on the UCLA campus in Dickson Court South, 1993, at the steps of Schoenberg Music Building, alongside in front of student protest, student activists, professors and Los Angeles community members, connecting the historic East Los Angeles Walkouts to the equally historic UCLA Hunger Strikes. Castro and Los Angeles protesting Chancellor Charles E. Young's decision to close the Chicana/o Studies Department. Side note, this image was selected by Google for their 4-image Google Knowledge Panel. Photograph captured by Mexican fine art documentary photographer Abraham Torres, with a Canon EOS 630 35mm film camera.
Sal Castro connecting East L.A. to UCLA, UCLA Hunger Strike Fine Art Collection
Sal Castro, leader of the 1968 East Los Angeles Walkouts, is supporting the 1993 Hunger Strikers, at Ucla.