Denver's Chicano movement held rallies here...and was attacked by the police.
Since 1967, Denver City Council has designated 360 individual landmarks and 58 historic districts for preservation, but only 13 percent of those designations are"explicitly including historically excluded communities," according to the city.
"It's not just about the preservation of those features — such as the kiosko, the murals and the sculpture. It's also to highlight in mainstream media and to my colleagues on council and to the public the significance that the Chicano movement played in the makeup of Denver," says Councilwoman Amanda Sandoval, whose district includes the park.
Sandoval says the park played"a significant role" in her upbringing, and that she attended quinceañeras, Día de los Muertos festivals and summer solstice celebrations there. La Raza Park was then known as Columbus Park; this part of town had been home to a large Italian community in the early twentieth century. But after the neighborhood became mostly Latino and the park became an important gathering place, the push to rename the park offered a sense of"community control," and the idea that residents had some say over the place where they lived.
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