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Book SynopsisCommunism Through My Eyes: My Father Robert Trujillo, 1903 – 1986 by Mary Lou Salazar, PhD is the fascinating story of an iconic but little-known figure in Colorado's political and social history: Mary Lou's father, Robert Trujillo, became a communist in 1936 during the hardships of the Great Depression, later becoming the Chairman of the Communist Party in Colorado. He remained a communist for fifty years, until his death in 1986. As his youngest daughter, the eighth of nine children, Mary Lou shares with us her childhood memories, as well as the historical facts, about her beloved father, Robert Trujillo.
Mary Lou tells us, as a wide-eyed little girl, of sitting on the steps in her house looking down into her living room at the dozens of people who frequently gathered there. They came to feast on her mother's tamales and listen to her father, Robert, make rousing speeches about justice and equal rights for the common people; r
