New UIC exhibit explores the life and legacy of Latinx activist Rudy Lozano

“A Search for Unity: Rudy Lozano and the Coalition Building in Chicago” will run at UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library until next fall.

Rudy Lozano
Community activist Rodolfo “Rudy” Lozano attended the University of Illinois Chicago in the 1970s and was instrumental in the election of Mayor Harold Washington. He's the subject of a new exhibit at the Richard J. Daley Library on the UIC campus. Rodolfo “Rudy” Lozano archives University of Illinois Chicago

New UIC exhibit explores the life and legacy of Latinx activist Rudy Lozano

“A Search for Unity: Rudy Lozano and the Coalition Building in Chicago” will run at UIC’s Richard J. Daley Library until next fall.

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Renowned community organizer Rodolfo “Rudy” Lozano fought for labor rights and forged coalitions between Black and Latino Chicagoans before he was tragically murdered in 1983. Lozano was instrumental in the election of Harold Washington, the city’s first African American mayor, and led the push for Latino faculty and courses on Latin American history at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Reset learns about a new UIC exhibit that celebrates the way Lozano tried to bring different communities of people together.

GUESTS: Maria de los Angeles Torres, distinguished professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the UIC

David Greenstein, lecturer in special collections and university archives at UIC