- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Christy Martinez-Garcia, June 14, 2016
- Creator:
- Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Martinez-Garcia, Christy - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-14
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Martinez-Garcia, Christy
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Lubbock County, Lubbock, 33.57786, -101.85517
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Christy Martinez-Garcia was born and raised in Lubbock. She attended Lubbock High School, Lamar University, and completed her degree at Texas Tech University. After college, Martinez-Garcia worked for the Lubbock city government and then for the National Council of La Raza in Washington D.C. Upon her return to Lubbock, Martinez-Garcia sought to counter the local media narrative that mostly only depicted Hispanics as criminals or only immigrants. Thus, she founded the magazine, Latino Lubbock. She also ran for a position in the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees. Martinez-Garcia has participated in numerous community organizations and was responsible for the naming of Cesar Chavez street in Lubbock as well as having a historical marker for a what once a migrant labor camp.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982445/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video recordings (49 min., 34 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-christy-martinez-garcia
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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