Oral History Interview with Lilia Escajeda, July 6, 2016
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Lilia Escajeda was born in El Paso, Texas. She grew up between El Paso, Van Horn, and Amarillo; and she remembers going to segregated schools in Van Horn. She settled in Amarillo as an adult after her husband died, and she eventually became the first female loan-officer for any bank in Amarillo, at the Amarillo National Bank. She joined various community organizations, boards, and became both the first Mexican American women Amarillo College board member and City Commissioner (later City Counci…
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Date:
July 6, 2016
Duration:
41 minutes 14 seconds
Creator:
Escajeda, Lilia; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
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TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library