San Francisco de Así Es

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Ramírez de Los Ángeles" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 43 WIDTH="822"><div> San Francisco de Así Es</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="822"><div> Francisco P. Ramírez de Los Ángeles</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> Paintings and Stories of the early History of El Pueblo de Los Angeles, by J. Michael Walker</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="822"><div> <IMG SRC="2cfbc020.png" border=0 width="444" height="2" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="783" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 644 WIDTH="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="644" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="9" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3ae610d0.jpg" border=0 width="353" height="525" ALT="J Michael Walker's San Francisco de Así Es - Francisco P. Ramírez de Los Ángeles" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="3" WIDTH="350" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#C0C0C0" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFBF0 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 ><NOBR><div> San Francisco de Así Es</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 39 ><NOBR><div> by J Michael Walker, 2004</div> <div> Sumi ink on vinyl paper, 91” high x 60” wide</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="9"><bR> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="352" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="346"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="20" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="346" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 107 WIDTH="346"><div> Bursting onto the L.A. scene like some precocious nineteenth century singer-songwriter, Francisco P. Ramirez was only nineteen years old when he founded Los Angeles' Spanish language newspaper, <U>El Clamor Público</U> (The Public Outcry), in 1855.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 108 WIDTH="346"><div> Born just after secularization of the missions, and barely an adolescent when California was battled away from México, the Los Angeles native found his voice as the editor, publisher, and principal writer for his 4-page weekly-turned-daily.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="346"><div> For the four years of <U>El Clamor Público</U>'s run, Francisco's was one of the strongest and most fearless voices of opposition to the racial violence and cultural injustice pervading Los Angeles, as Anglo Southerners and Easterners consolidated their control of Southern California</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 135 WIDTH="346"><div> Staring down the white supremacist “El Monte Boys,” who brutalized and intimidated the disinherited Mexican natives, and appealing to the better angels of Angelenos of all colors, Francisco also quixotically published his newspaper for a largely illiterate readership (rather like his namesake, St. Francis, sermonizing - with apparent success - to the birds)</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="644" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="9" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 WIDTH="886"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="886" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>