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Oral history interview with Dalia Sanchez, 2013
Oral history interview with Dalia Sanchez, 2013
Call Number
OH1876-V
Date
2013
Description
Dalia was born in 1995 in Brighton, Colorado. Her parents had come to Colorado from Mexico about 14 years before that time. She went to elementary school in Frederick, Colorado, and later to Longmont High School. She describes her elementary years as carefree, but was unhappy in high school because the Mexican/Hispanic and white students self-segragated. Because she was born in this country and thought of herself as American, but was of Hispanic background, she felt that she did not fit with either group. She hypothesizes that teachers often picked white students as their favorites because they participated more in extra-curricular activities where teachers and students interacted informally. At the time of the interview she had just graduated from high school and planned to go to Front Range Community College, and then to either the University of Colorado or the military, eventually hoping to become a coroner and own her own morgue.
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Oral history interview with Edwina M. Salazar, 2013
Oral history interview with Edwina M. Salazar, 2013
Call Number
OH1854-V
Date
2013
Description
Edwina Salazar is the executive director of the OUR Center in Longmont, Colorado. She was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1948. Her father's family, of Jewish origin, was from Northern New Mexico but had moved to the San Luis Valley in Colorado. Her mother's family members were farm workers who settled in Erie. Ms. Salazar attended a liberal Catholic school in the 1960s where the nuns and priests were active in civil rights and anti-war movements. Her mother, who died when Edwina as 14, cleaned houses and insisted Edwina get an education so she could do better. Ms. Salazar attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins where she discovered her passion for social work. She describes civil rights and anti-war agitation while she was there. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in social work. She moved to Longmont in 1992, where she helped arrange for a monument in Kensington Park for two unarmed Hispanic youths killed by police in 1980. She describes the OUR Center and her work with it.
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