[1] Lozano was important in organizing "Black-Brown unity" in the election of Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago.
"[2] Born in Harlingen, Texas, his parents moved the family early on to Chicago's predominantly Mexican-American southwest side Pilsen neighborhood.
He faced longtime alderman Frank Stemberk and though Lozano was defeated, failing to force a runoff by seventeen votes,[4] he, along with his sister Emma Lozano, played an instrumental role in bringing Latino voters across the city to support candidate Harold Washington, who became Chicago's first African-American mayor.
[4] Mayor Washington visited his widow at the home later that day,[6] and said at Lozano's funeral that he "was a man driven by a search for unity among people.
[8] Today, the Pilsen branch of the Chicago Public Library is named in Lozano's honor, and his wife, sister, and sons continue his activist legacy.