Fifty years ago, in 1974, a pair of car bombings in Boulder killed six people. Five of the six were University of Colorado students and alumni who had been part of a Chicano student activist group on campus called .
Their names were Una Jaakola, Reyes MartÃnez, Neva Romero, Florencio Granado, Heriberto Terán and Francisco Dougherty. They were known as .
At the time, the police said the activists likely blew themselves up with their own explosives – a claim that’s still . The case remains unresolved.
City officials recently . Artist designed it to commemorate the tragedy. We spoke to Baetz about how she learned of Los Seis, and the artwork she created.