page_title: Ruben Salazar
section_title: Legacy and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Ruben Salazar / Legacy and honors
caption_attribution_description: English: A plaque honoring Ruben Salazar mounted in the Globe Lobby of the Los Angeles Times Building in Downtown Los Angeles.
context_page_description: Ruben Salazar was a civil rights activist and a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the first Mexican-American journalist from mainstream media to cover the Chicano community.
  Salazar was killed during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles, California. During the march, Salazar was struck and immediately killed by a tear-gas projectile fired by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy Thomas Wilson. No criminal charge was filed, but Salazar's family reached an out-of-court financial settlement with the county.
context_section_description: Salazar was a two-time winner of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club Award and in 1965 was presented with an award from the Equal Opportunity Foundation.
  In 1971, Salazar was posthumously awarded a special Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
  After the controversy related to his death had subsided, Laguna Park, site of the 1970 rally and subsequent police action, was renamed Salazar Park in his honor.
  Salazar is depicted under the name "Roland Zanzibar" in Oscar Zeta Acosta's 1973 novel The Revolt of the Cockroach People.
  In 1979, Sonoma State University re-named its library in honor of Salazar. Subsequently, in 2002 the library moved into a new building, and the new building was named Salazar Hall. 
  In 1996, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC acquired the painting Death of Rubén Salazar, a 1968 oil on canvas by artist Frank Romero.
  His death was commemorated in a corrido by Lalo Guerrero titled "El 29 de Agosto".
  A classroom building at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) is named for him. On October 12, 2006, the hall was rededicated with the unveiling of his portrait by John Martin.
  On October 5, 2007, the United States Postal Service announced that it would honor five journalists of the 20th century with first-class rate postage stamps, to be issued on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk, Ruben Salazar, and Eric Sevareid.
  A documentary about Salazar by Phillip Rodriguez titled Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle was broadcast on PBS television on April 29, 2014.
caption: A plaque honoring Salazar was mounted in the Globe lobby of the former Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles.
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