Pilot program seeks to save historic San Antonio shotgun houses and create jobs
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Celia Mendoza owns this 700-square-foot “double shotgun” rental unit near San Antonio College. It is one of about 300 shotgun houses spread throughout San Antonio’s urban core. They were built from the 1870s to the 1930s for working-class families.Billy Calzada /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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This row of houses on West Ashby includes a shotgun house, right, thought to have been built in the 1870s. City officials believe these old homes may be part of the answer to affordable, energy-efficient housing and job creation.Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
Fifty years ago, tens of thousands of people marched through East Los Angeles in a series of demonstrations as part of the Chicano Moratorium movement to protest the Vietnam War and its toll on Mexican Americans. Hundreds were arrested, and several were killed, including L.A. Times journalist Ruben Salazar.
Those marches are an indelible part of Angelenosâ struggle for racial equality, but their national significance was not formally recognized until last month, when several key sites along the march routes were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Credit is due to the Los Angeles Conservancy and countless Chicano studies scholars for advocating for their listing. But it is important to put this victory in perspective.
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Fifty years ago, tens of thousands of people marched through East Los Angeles in a series of demonstrations as part of the Chicano Moratorium movement to protest the Vietnam War and its toll on Mexican Americans. Hundreds were arrested, and several were killed, including L.A. Times
journalist Ruben Salazar.
Those marches are an indelible part of Angelenos’ struggle for racial equality, but their national significance was not formally recognized until last month, when several key sites along the march routes were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Credit is due to the Los Angeles Conservancy and countless Chicano studies scholars for advocating for their listing. But it is important to put this victory in perspective.