Those locations are among the seven Latino heritage sites that preservation scholars say are in need of protection due to their deep cultural and historical ties to the Latino community in the United States. It's the ancestral home to the Comanche and Apache people and has "significant ancient rock imagery sites, ancient cultural deposits," the report and local groups said. Before World War II, primarily White baseball teams played at Hazard Park but afterward, Mexican American teams "began to proliferate and claim space" there," the report states. The historic first neighborhood of El Paso, Texas, called Duranguito has been at the center of a years-long battle over its preservation. A park that saved a Mexican American neighborhoodChepa's Park is at the heart of the oldest Mexican American neighborhood in Santa Ana, California.

Source: CNN July 10, 2021 08:03 UTC