Garza / Appointment to the School Board, Part Two
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And, I had never been to a school board meeting and when they called me to appoint me, "Trini, we have a point to fill this intern position [?], so I left work early. And, when [?] while the group that have been there, there were two ladies [?] who were sitting behind [?] and that was the beginning of the Hispanic involvement [?] It was in August of 1969. Yea, but that was in the appointment to fill in a vacancy until the next election, then in 1970, they were electing two school boards almost every year, So, in 1970, they had four candidates [?] they added my name, so it was the four of us. All four of us were [?] Barely, but I got nothing, lol! Interviewer-"Do you remember any of your campaign strategy?" [?] Mr. Garza-Well, the strategy was pretty much based on the strategies of [?] Candidates and the minority community [?] And, so I got elected by .1% or something like that very, very close that year, they turned the tables on us [?] And the part what they pushed for was sexual education, lol! And, [?] schools used that one issue to [?] and in 1970, I lost my 10% but by that time, he already gotten some
| Interview | Interview with Trini Garza |
| Subjects | Education › Parent and Community Involvement in Education |
| Electoral Politics › Latino/a Elected Officials | |
| Tags | Medrano, Robert |
| Medrano, Ricardo | |
| Castro, Mary Lee | |
| Ramirez, Esther | |
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| Interview date | 2015-06-11 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Garza, Trini |
| Interviewers | Bynum, Katherine |
| Duration | 00:03:26 |
| Citation | "Appointment to the School Board, Part Two," from Trini Garza oral history interview with Katherine Bynum, June 11, 2015, Dallas, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/1432/appointment-to-school-board, accessed October 19, 2025 |
