By Kevan Malone – SanDiegoUnionTribune.com – Photo: Eduardo Contreras | The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Photo: A mural in Chicano Park depicting five cars caravaning north on Interstate 5, from Las Playas de Tijuana to Chicano Park.
San Diego, California – 50 years ago this week, April 22, 1970, some 250 Chicano high school and college students began occupying a 1.8-acre parcel of state property under the recently built Coronado Bridge interchange under Interstate 5 in Barrio Logan.