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Medrano / Local Media and Local Groups

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Interviewer-"Uh, lets see, we're going to cover DPD, police brutality, you guys coalitioned with the Black Panthers, who initiated that? I think you might had a touch on this a little bit, but who came to who to start protesting the Dallas police." Mr. Medrano-I think it was placed when media was [?] something happended, media picked it up, put it in the paper, somebody got hurt, somebody hurt and we put it in the papers and we turned and went to the families. "Can you explain what happened to us?" You know all that kind of stuff and then that gave us the [?] because there's an issue wrapped around that issue, lets go call the media and then we're going to do something about what just happened, you know. Interviewer-"So, its just kind of like sell it together, kind of like uh, ok" Mr. Medrano-Not really, like organized stuff like that, it happened with him, it was a weekly and the media is just doing their service of informing and you know sometimes they inform for to get stuff started, the McKinney issue, you could see [?] they do it everyday, its really exciting

Interview Interview with Robert Medrano
Subjects Race Relations › Black-Brown Race Relations
White Resistance to Civil Rights › Extrajudicial Violence › Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Police and Law Enforcement
Police and Law Enforcement › Police Brutality
Media › Mainstream Media
Media › Supportive Journalists and Editors
Direct Action
Student Activism › Latino/a Participation in Black-led Actions
Student Activism › Black Participation in Latino/a-led Actions
Black Power › Black Panthers
Black Power › Local Black Power Organizations
Chicano Power › Brown Berets
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Interview date 2015-06-10
Interview source CRBB Summer 2015
Interviewees Medrano, Robert
Interviewers Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Locations Dallas, Texas
Duration 00:03:48
Citation "Local Media and Local Groups," 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/878/local-media-and-local-groups, accessed October 30, 2025