Oral History Interview with Sandra Fuentes, Elvira Castro, JoElda Hinojosa, Beatriz Arizpe on July 28, 2016.

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Four co-chairs of The Border Organization (Organización Fronteriza) --a Del Rio-based group devoted to community organizing-- share their story about the group's mission and strategies. The interviewees talked about how they joined -- Sandra Fuentes and Elvira Castro are veterans from the organization and have been involved in numerous fights for local government accountability, while JoElda Hinojosa and Beatriz Arizpe joined recently when the group helped organize food service workers from the San Felipe Del Rio school district. Among the issues discussed were geographic disparities in the quality of public services and how race and gender affect local activism in … continued below

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Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve; Fuentes, Sandra; Castro, Elvira; Hinojosa, JoElda & Arizpe, Beatriz July 28, 2016.

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Four co-chairs of The Border Organization (Organización Fronteriza) --a Del Rio-based group devoted to community organizing-- share their story about the group's mission and strategies. The interviewees talked about how they joined -- Sandra Fuentes and Elvira Castro are veterans from the organization and have been involved in numerous fights for local government accountability, while JoElda Hinojosa and Beatriz Arizpe joined recently when the group helped organize food service workers from the San Felipe Del Rio school district. Among the issues discussed were geographic disparities in the quality of public services and how race and gender affect local activism in Del Rio.

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Civil Rights in Black and Brown

Based at TCU, the Civil Rights in Black and Brown (CRBB) Oral History Project collects, interprets, and disseminates oral history interviews of the brown and black freedom struggles in Texas.

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  • July 28, 2016

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Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve; Fuentes, Sandra; Castro, Elvira; Hinojosa, JoElda & Arizpe, Beatriz. Oral History Interview with Sandra Fuentes, Elvira Castro, JoElda Hinojosa, Beatriz Arizpe on July 28, 2016., video, July 28, 2016; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987645/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library.

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