- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Lydia Madrigal on July 29, 2016
- Creator:
- Wisely, Karen
Madrigal, Lydia - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-29
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Madrigal, Lydia
- 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:
- Lydia Evaro Madrigal was born in Odessa, Texas in 1957 and grew up in the majority minority area of south Odessa. She attended Zavala Elementary, Travis Elementary, Ector County Junior High and High School, and transferred to Permian Basin high school for the higher level of academic classes. Madrigal graduated from high school in 1975. She then attended Odessa College, and began working in a local television station due to a suit by attorney Richard Abalos due to the lack of people of color in that television station. She initially reported on the Larry Lozano case and saw the bias of the local media against Lozano and his family. Madrigal had been part political campaigns since she was thirteen and was offered a job at the Texas House of Representatives while in college. Eventually, she graduated from the University of Texas-Permian Basin 1989 after having attended Southwestern Texas State University. Madrigal has been the Latino outreach coordinator for the DNC in Washington D.C., has worked to make Odessa College a Hispanic Serving Institution, and is now a business owner in Odessa and Midland, Texas.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982468/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 7 video recordings (1 hr., 38 min., 30 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-lydia-madrigal
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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