Chicano_Park

Chicano Park Chicano Park San Diego was already such a historic place for the Mexicans living there. So when the government tried taking the land that was rich in history and culture from the people, there was protest. The neighborhood known as barrio Logan was rich in population consisting of many Chicanos where the population was 20,000 and it was like a little village of Mexico in the U.S. The people of barrio Logan never had to leave town to function as a community. They never had to leave to get groceries, buy clothes; all kids knew each other and all went to the same school. The people of the neighborhood were not at all financially stable, they were all quite poor but they were all happy. There was no inequality in the barrio between different classes and races. All were Chicano and they were in similar situations. The population was made up of Mexicans who migrated from Mexico to California, so it was like a big family. The trouble began in 1924 when the first border checkpoints were created. This was the first sign of government intervention in this area. Then came 1929, when the World War was over and the white people, chicano, chicanos, barrio, logan, war, struggle, population, park, never, neighborhood, movement, land, government, diego, world, white, vacant, soldiers, site, san, rich, promised, out, new, murals, mexico, mexicans, left, leave, known, jobs, homes, history, first, cultural, created, community, began, back, again, work, without, way, watched, village, various, unified, trouble, tried, transformed