Oral history interview with Anita Martínez, 1999 [videorecording].

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Oral history interview with Anita Martínez, 1999 [videorecording].

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Mrs. Martínez recalls the circumstances of her nomination for and election to the Dallas City Council and describes the support her candidacy received. She discusses her council service and her success in bringing improvements to West Dallas. Martínez talks at length about the Anita N. Martínez Ballet Folklórico, providing the reasons behind its founding, explaining her hopes for its influence, and relating the efforts made to combat the financial instability it suffered at various times. She also provides details of her ancestry and mentions her siblings and descendants, and briefly describes her schooling and early jobs. Martínez speaks of her various presidential appointments, especially that to a commission to evaluate the Peace Corps, and refers in some detail to her efforts to have St. Ann's school in Dallas declared a historic landmark.

1 videocassette (VHS) (2 hr.) : col. ; 1/2 in.Transcript : 53 p. ; 28 cm.

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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