Medrano / Renaming Gabe Allen Elementary to Emiliano Zapata Elementary
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Mr. Medrano-They filed a lawsuit on single member district [?] ran in 74 and got elected and now, [?] now we got the boys, we got the motion, you know as a Brown Beret, I would need you, cause now your on the other side and I would need you [?] Zapata is, you know, a sociolist. Zapata is a Mexican and we didn't had no policy that [?] so now that they crafted the policy, must be an American citizen, must be dead, so we got a prominant politician right now that you named a [?] right now..no politician [?] the one that got away with that was [?] he broke the rule of that policy [?] for 25 years, 25 years [?]
| Interview | Interview with Robert Medrano |
| Subjects | Education › "Mexican School" |
| Court Cases › Single Member District Court Cases | |
| Chicano Power › Brown Berets | |
| Tags | Lipscomb, Al |
| White, W.T. | |
| Gabe P. Allen Elementary School, Dallas, TX | |
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| Interview date | 2015-06-10 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Medrano, Robert |
| Interviewers | Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés |
| Locations | Dallas, TX |
| Duration | 00:01:52 |
| Citation | "Renaming Gabe Allen Elementary to Emiliano Zapata Elementary," from Robert Medrano oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola, June 10, 2015, Dallas, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/256/renaming-gabe-allen-elementary-to-emiliano-zapata-elementary, accessed November 05, 2025 |
