Oral History Interview with Diana Salgado, July 29, 2016
Description:
Diana Salgado grew up in the Barrio Chihuahua area of Del Rio in the 1940s. She recalled the discrimination in public spaces in the city (movie theaters, soda fountains…) and how the operators of these places would sometimes try to give her preferential treatment over other Mexican Americans due to her fair skin. Salgado married and dropped out of school shortly before her expected graduation; after spending some years in Arizona, her husband and her moved to San Jose, California, where she fou…
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Date:
July 29, 2016
Duration:
1 hour 31 minutes 54 seconds
Creator:
Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & Salgado, Diana
Partner:
TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library