Interviewee

Interviewer

Virgilio H. Sanchez

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee

Teacher, administrator, social worker, counselor, chairperson of Historical Society in Edinburg, Texas.

Summary of Interview

Recollections of her father as a Confederate soldier and Ku Klux Klan member; remembers her grandmother made Klan gowns; witnessed part of the Mexican Revolution in Brownsville, Texas; lived on a plantation where Mexicans were hired; lived on the border during Prohibition, the 1918 Flu Epidemic, and the Depression; social customs.

Date of Interview

10-10-1978

Length of Interview

1 hour 5 minutes

Tape Number

No. 349

Interview Number

No. 349

Terms of Use

Unrestricted

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