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Cinco Puntos Memorial
The Cinco Puntos Memorial, formally known as the Mexican American All Wars Monument, is a marble war memorial in Los Angeles, California, honoring the contributions of the city's Mexican-American/Chicano veterans. It is located at Cinco Puntos, at the crossroads between Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. The memorial is known as the starting point of the 1968 Chicano Moratorium protests.
Why it's on the map
The monument was erected by the Comite Cívico Cultural Pro Raza (Spanish for "Pro Raza Cultural Civic Committee"), which held a groundbreaking ceremony on December 7, 1946.
On December 20, 1969, Cinco Puntos was the starting point of the first Chicano Moratorium, a march in protest of the Vietnam War.
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