Bernie Valdez - Denver, CO
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This Memorial is located at 17th Street near Tremont Place and the Brown Palace.
Waymark Code: WMBCCT
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2011
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This plaque is embedded in the pavement near the Brown Palace Hotel and reads:
"HUMAN RIGHTS HERO
'We have to organize.
The best way to make
the system work for us
is cooperation.'
Bernie Valdez (1912 - 1997)
Co-founder of Latin American Education
Foundation and the latin American
Research and Service Agency, and
Head of the Colorado Coalition
for Dropout Prevention"
The edge of the circular plaque reads:
"WALLSTREET OF THE ROCKIES
SEVENTEENTH STREET
DENVER, COLORADO"
A brief obituary for Valdez can be read at (
visit link)