In late spring 1974, a car exploded in Boulder. Another soon followed. Six young people were killed; a seventh was seriously injured. They came to be known as Los Seis de Boulder, The Boulder Six. AAlbaladejo reports.
DENVER, BOULDER and LONGMONT, Colo. — In late spring 1974, a car exploded in Boulder. Another soon followed. Six young people were killed; a seventh was seriously injured. They came to be known as Los Seis de Boulder, The Boulder Six.
Less than 48 hours later, a second car bomb killed poet Heriberto Teran, activist Florencio “Freddy” Granado and aspiring doctor Francisco Dougherty. Another man, Antonio Alcantar, survived but was seriously injured.The deadly explosions struck fear into Colorado’s Chicano movement. Federal and local law enforcement agencies investigated, but no one was ever charged.
“A lot of people don't know that Colorado was really a hotbed of Chicano activism on par with places like Texas and Los Angeles,” said Nicki Gonzales, Colorado’s first Latina state historian. The lives of Los Seis and the state’s other Chicano activists are now on display at Denver’s History Colorado museum, which Gonzales helped put together.
Through the historical documents, Friedel hopes that students and others in the community can get a fuller picture of the student activism that was happening before and after the bombings. Two car bombings, less than 48 hours apart almost 50 years ago, are still shaking the lives of Coloradans today. Lopez and other family members of those who died continue to mourn their loss, and to share their stories.“Our history in this area goes back for so long,” Lopez said. But, he said, “a lot of the Chicano history has just been erased and bulldozed over... so inevitably, it's the stuff that seeps into my art.”“They figured that that could be one of the best ways to help people and just help the cause,” Lopez said.
He credits his mother, Georgiana Archuleta, his uncles and Chicano movement scholars and activists like Ricardo Romero and Priscilla Falcon, for teaching him about his father.Florencio Granado once marched 100 miles from Pueblo to Denver to call attention to the struggles of farm workers.For Granado and Lopez, the fight of their lost ancestors is one that lives on today.
"I kind of wanted to look for people before me that were dealing with the same things I was dealing with and Los Seis came up,” said Mejia, who recently made a documentary about the car bomb victims as part of her studies at CU Boulder.Before the bombs went off, UMAS was pressuring the university for financial aid and higher enrollment of Chicanos. The students were occupying Temporary Building One, also known as TB-1.
Jasmine Baetz and Celina Jara Tovar were art students at CU Boulder when they built a memorial honoring Los Seis in 2019.
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