- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Lupe Garcia, June 21, 2016
- Creator:
- Enriquez, Sandra
Rodriguez, Samantha
Garcia, Lupe - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-21
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Garcia, Lupe
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Fort Bend County, Sugar Land, 29.61968, -95.63495
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Lupe Garcia was born in 1943 in Sugar Land, a suburb of Houston, TX. He talks about his brother Macario Garcia, a decorated WWII veteran who was denied service at a Sugar Land restaurant after returning home. Macario Garcia's experience with segregation in Sugar Land would lead to LULAC Council #60 to utilize this incident as a means of further tackling Juan Crow. Lupe Garcia talks about how segregation functioned in Sugar Land and what his brother's legacy means for Latinas/os. He also talks about being politically involved in electoral politics.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987500/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 video recordings (1 hr., 3 min., 17 sec.) : sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
-
