Alamo, TX

Interview Description Hope Arce (72) talks with her niece Minerva Pérez McEnelly (54) about the discrimination she has faced as a Mexican-American and family genealogy. Facilitator Subject Log 3:17 descrimination that Emilio (Hope's father) faced; he was left handed and he never learned to read or write 9:02 punished at school for speaking Spanish; family of firsts; first Sheriff of Alamo; Minerva was punished for speaking Spanish in the first...

Interview Description Delia interviews her mom about being adopted, reuniting with her 17 siblings, and her brain aneurysm. Facilitator Subject Log 13:44 Carmen had a brain aneurysm. Her heard the doctor telling her daughters that she had a 2% chance of survival. 15:43 Today Carmen can vote for her daughter in the state legislature. She cries every time she votes. Her father, Ralph, would have loved voting for Delia. He thought it was a privilege and...