- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Esther Sepeda, June 29, 2016
- Creator:
- Wisely, Karen
Zapata, Joel
Sepeda, Esther - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-29
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Sepeda, Esther
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Hale County, Abernathy
United States, Texas, Lubbock County, Abernathy, 33.8323, -101.84295
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:
- Esther Sepeda was born in Buda, Texas and was raised in both Knott, Texas and Hale Center, Texas. She married while in school and left school, living and beginning a family in Hale Center. Afterwords, her family moved to Abernathy, Texas. In Abernathy, Sepeda began working within community services. While in the town, Sepeda and her husband began a building business and eventually moved to Lubbock for that business. In Lubbock, she served as the award winning president of Comerciantes Organizados Mexico-Americanos (COMA) and a founder member of the Hispanic Association of Women.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982508/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 video recordings (1 hr., 23 min., 12 sec.) : sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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