Oral History Interview with Gloria McGuire, July 28, 2016
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Gloria McGuire was born and raised in Marathon, a town in Brewster Co., Texas (north of Alpine). She recalled her hometown as a highly segregated community, with a lost of hostility against people of Mexican descent. Her father, an immigrant from Mexico, founded a Mutualist association in Marathon and was involved in several initiatives to protect the community from the worst of discrimination. She recounted that many young Mexican Americans abandoned their studies due to neglect/mistreatment, …
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Date:
July 28, 2016
Duration:
48 minutes 11 seconds
Creator:
Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & McGuire, Gloria
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TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library