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• 1 media/Screen Shot 2018-03-08 at 1.37.00 PM.png media/UMAS FREDDIE FREAK.jpg 2018-03-01T20:49:48-08:00 UMAS 31 During the 60s and 70s an activist with a very unique name was starting to make headway in Colorado. How he got involved in activision is a rather interesting story... image_header 689171 2018-04-17T19:30:49-07:00
  Freddie Freak  was 30 years old when he took a summer course on Chicano Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This course which  he took was offered by the United Mexican American Students (UMAS). Later that fall he enrolled for undergraduate classes at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
  
  He was walking on campus one day and he noticed a rally going on by a fountain. He heard words like Chicano Pride and Brown power being spoken. He asked one of the students hanging around the rally what was going on and the student said the group were a bunch of communists and he shouldn't get involved. Trujillo did not support communism so he cautioned himself with the group.
  
  As the days passed on he got more interested with the group and all the activities they were participating in. Trujillo soon came the conclusion that he wanted in the fun and if that meant becoming a communist that he would do it. This communist group that he would join would be the UMAS or United Mexican American Students.
• 1 media/Screen Shot 2018-03-08 at 1.37.00 PM.png media/EFFT-S-2091_1.jpg 2018-04-05T19:22:11-07:00 Life as a Freak 9 plain 689129 2018-04-24T16:25:30-07:00
  
  
  
  
  
  In 2008, Juan " Freddie Freak" Trujillo gave an interview to Ruth Soto of the Colorado State University-Pueblo University Archives and Special Collections. The purpose of this interview was to give Mr. Trujillo the opportunity to share his history and fight as a Chicano. The reason Trujillo was there was, "I have a very beautiful race of people with a very beautiful culture and we have to be able to continue to express our culture to our family and our unborn. My grandchildren don't speak Spanish and I am hoping that my great grandchildren will eventually get back to it, to sharing what I'm trying  to share today with you people." The purpose of this interview was to find out the personal beliefs and personal details of his life.
  
  As the interview came to a close Ruth Soto asked Juan Trujillo one final question which was, " So you would you offer your advice? How to wake up these people that are sleeping? I mean it makes me angry, you know. I'm almost hitting 50 years old, and barely found out about my people and my roots. I started Chicano studies in 2006, and since I have it's like a light bulb that's went off in my head. Well, why don't we have a Chicano major? Why can't we have that here? We only have a minor here. This final question lists the frustrations that Ruth Soto has felt during the interview as Trujillo has told her his life story.
  
  Trujillo would then go into a monologue describing his encounters with racism and what motivates him to continue with the cause for Chicano Equality.