Medrano / Schooling and Segregation in Dallas
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Interviewer-"So, tell me about your schooling, what schools are on here, what schools did you attend?" Mr. Medrano-I attended the Sam Houston Elementary School [?] today its a K-3 [?] So, I ended up attending that school. 7th grade moving up to [?] middle school which is on campus [?] not far from here [?] less than 10 blocks from here [?] I could not attend [?] because of segregation. We had to got catch the bus, down the street here, two buses, go downtown catch [?] was in a pre-dominant hispanic [?] and I said why can't I attend the school down the street? You know, walk to the school 10 blocks, I could take the bus, but the policy of the school district [?] because of zoning. I said zoning? I'm pretty much 3 miles, 4 miles, 5 miles waiting for waiting for my middle school when i'm 10 miles, well that's where the line of zoning. The boundaries of school board [?] we apparantly knew why cause it was hispanic middle school and the other was a newly constructed anglo-school. We could sense that and know about it you know...
| Interview | Interview with Robert Medrano |
| Subjects | Housing › Neighborhoods › Residential Segregation |
| Housing › Exclusionary Zoning | |
| Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation at School | |
| Education › "Mexican School" | |
| Education › Elementary Education | |
| Tags | Sam Houston Elementary School, Dallas, TX |
| Alex W. Spence Middle 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 | 00:01:50 |
| Citation | "Schooling and Segregation in Dallas," 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/260/schooling-and-segregation-in-dallas, accessed October 31, 2025 |
