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Medrano / Other Organizations in the Area

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Interviewer-"Uh, so I have a question about [?] What about LULAC [?] and all these other groups that were prominant?" Mr. Medrano-Everybody thinking about the bandwagon and Mexican American [?] it started out of campuses, I don't wanna, the Brown Berets a little too militant for me. I'm not going to be wearing brown khakis and [?] same [?] I wanna an actor this, I wanna go confront the chancellor, I wanna do this, but [?] you saw [?] Mexican American Specific Action [?] MaMa, [?] you look em up [?] We don't wanna be copycats, so we started home, we bring it home selection, oh, no they all started the same concept. Then, comes LULAC, you know LULAC is Latin American, We're not Mexican American. [?] so it comes a little more bourgeose, LULAC becomes a little bit more conservative. Same as in concepts, I think [?] to the establishment to see that you'll select the citizens councel, one of us, so it seems to be more passiveness, will take into consider LULAC's are into considerating American G. I form [?] those strictly veterans benifits. The bareals, and the things that are happening. Trick into the military, things that they accomplished. Creating a museum, you know that kind of stuff, that, everybody's got their own little issues, but when they came down to [?] they was there, Ramsey's running for governor [?] can we count of you'll's support among you'lls LULAC, can we count on you'lls [?]. So, they are touching base on [?] for something that can bring change. So, you know I had run for U.S. Senate too, Angel Perez, he ran for U.S. Senate...

Interview Interview with Robert Medrano
Subjects Community Organizations › Civil Rights Organizations › League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Electoral Politics › Raza Unida Party
Ideology › Liberalism
Ideology › Relations Between Radicalism and Liberalism
Chicano Power › Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO)
Class and Status › Intra-racial/ethnic Economic Stratification
Class and Status › Intra-racial/ethnic Classism
Community Organizations › Civil Rights Organizations › American G.I. Forum (AGIF)
Tags Muniz, Ramsey
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Interview date 2015-06-10
Interview source CRBB Summer 2015
Interviewees Medrano, Robert
Interviewers Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Duration 00:02:25
Citation "Other Organizations in the Area," 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/884/other-organizations-in-the-area, accessed November 02, 2025