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Abelardo Barrientos Delgado, aka Lalo (November 27, 1931 – July 23, 2004), was a Chicano writer, community organizer, and poet.[1] His work was important in establishing the Chicano poetry movement.[2]
He was a major contributor to the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.[3] A professor in Metropolitan State University of Denver's Chicano/a Studies Department for 17 years, he was honored by the city of Denver posthumously in 2005 with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award.[4] In 2004, he was posthumously named Denver's first Poet Laureate.[5] Metropolitan State University hosts the annual Lalo Delgado Poetry Festival; which celebrates Delgado as a social justice poet and "the grandfather of Chicano and Chicana poetry in this country."[6][7][8]
Delgado was awarded the Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol Award for literature in 1977.[1]
Born in Boquilla de Conchos, Chihuahua, Mexico, Delgado moved to El Paso, Texas in 1943.[1] He grew up in a tenement occupied by 23 families sharing three bathrooms, learning English from a boys club after school.[9] Delgado organized his first protest while in school, refusing to sing the National Anthem and eventually convincing his classmates to sing in Spanish instead.[10]
Lalo was married to Lola Estrada and had eight children.[11]
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