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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 11, 2025