- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Isabel Jimenez, July 22, 2016
- Creator:
- Wisely, Karen
Zapata, Joel
Jimenez, Isabel - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-22
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Jimenez, Isabel
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Midland County, Midland, 31.99735, -102.07791
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Isabel Jimenez was born in 1953 in Slanton, Texas. Her family moved to Midland, Texas and she attended De Zavala Elementary (the “Mexican” school), Austin Junior High, and graduated from Midland High School in 1971. Jimenez attended Austin College in Sherman, Texas for one year, then Midland College, and the University of Texas—Permian Basin, which she eventually graduated from in 1987 with a degree in Spanish. Beginning in 1976, Jimenez worked for Southwest Bell. She joined LULAC in the 1970s due to police brutality against Mexican Americans, not wanting her own son to experience such brutality. Jimenez was part of LULAC single member districts at the county, city, school district, and community college levels. Jimenez also participated in the Southwest Voter Registration Project, taught as a bilingual education teacher, and is now a counselor at Midland College.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982466/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video recordings (1 hr., 7 min., 26 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interivew-with-isabel-jimenez
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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