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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Ruben Salazar papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0547
Identifier/Call Number: 1218
Physical Description:
42.56 Linear Feet
41 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 briefcase
Date (inclusive): 1920s-2008
Abstract: The Ruben Salazar papers include personal and professional materials that document the late journalist's life from his birth
in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 1928, to his 1970 death in Los Angeles during the National Chicano Moratorium march in East Los
Angeles. The collection contains photographs and correspondence, clippings and draft manuscripts of stories, and cards and
letters from his supporters, awards and realia.
Language of Material:
English
, Spanish; Castilian
.
COLLECTION STORED OFFSITE. Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
[Box/folder# or item name], Ruben Salazar papers, Collection no. 0547, Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies,
Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Many of the box-level descriptive records under this finding aid were titled using post-it note labels stuck to the outside
of each box. Descriptive records for boxes that did not have labels are titled with contents summarized in brackets.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Records on the Investigation of the Homicide of Ruben Salazar, Collection no. 0548,
Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Special Collections, USC Libraries
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Realia
Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
National Chicano Moratorium
Newspapers
Journalism
Correspondence
Photographs
Chandler, Otis -- Archives
Salazar, Ruben, 1928-1970 -- Archives