- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Gilbert Flores, June 20, 2016
- Creator:
- Flores, Gilbert
Zapata, Joel - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-20
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Flores, Gilbert
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Lubbock County, Lubbock, 33.57786, -101.85517
United States, Texas, Lubbock County, Slaton, 33.43731, -101.64349 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Gilbert A. Flores grew up in Slaton, Texas where he attended a segregated “Mexican School” and then a integrated school where he faced abuse and discrimination alongside other Mexican American children. Upon graduating from high school, he moved to Lubbock and began to work in various jobs until he opened up his own successful auto-parts store during the early 1970s. In 1993 he became the second Mexican American to be elected into the Lubbock County Commissioner’s Court.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982470/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video recordings (1 hr., 23 min., 51 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-gilbert-flores
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
-
