Oral history interview with Frances Guajardo Peña, 1996 [videorecording].

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Oral history interview with Frances Guajardo Peña, 1996 [videorecording].

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Frances Guajardo Peña explains the purpose of the Su Voz Es Su Voto rally and traces its origins to her work with the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. She talks about the work of the Committee to Educate on Voting Rights and Procedures and details the makeup of the Inner City Advocates (InCA), a group founded by her husband, Albert Peña (Jr.). She describes the efforts of her father, José Manuel Guajardo, as a lawyer in San Antonio and in encouraging activism in the family. She speaks of her family background and homelife and highlights the time she heard Cesar Chavez speak during a Chicano movement rally. She recounts her political activities as a student and defines her involvement with the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC). She provides details about her first husband's family business, Green's Jewelers in Corpus Christi, and reveals the origin of its non-Hispanic business name. She recalls the race discrimination she saw in Corpus Christi in contrast to her life in San Antonio and discusses her part in creating a trade school in San Antonio under Project Learn to Build in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. She relates the origins of the Fiestas Patrias (Mexico's Independence Day celebrations) at Mission County Park in San Antonio and attributes the success of the Fiestas Patrias celebrations to the efforts of the Ladies LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) 648. She refers to the leadership of Joyce Peters as the Bexar County Democratic Party chair and berates Henry Cisneros' failure to improve the Alazán Apache apartments in San Antonio's public housing as mayor or while head of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). She laments the weakening of LULAC when José Velez of Las Vegas, Nevada served as its president (1990-1994). She mentions Mexican American politician Victor Morales and San Antonio mayoral candidate Kay (H.) Turner. The interview was conducted at a Su Voz Es Su Voto rally.

1 videocassette (VHS) : col. ; 1/2 in.Transcript : 42 p. ; 28 cm.

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