They told us the history books were complete. They were not.

Most of us walked through twelve years of school and never heard the names of the people who fought, in courtrooms and city councils and newspaper columns, so that a Latina could vote, run for office, and be counted as a full citizen. That history was here the whole time. We just were not handed it.

Dr. Sarah Zenaida Gould is the Executive Director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute, MACRI, the only national museum dedicated to preserving and sharing Mexican American civil rights history. A historian who has spent two decades in museums, she sat down with Anjelica inside MACRI in San Antonio, the city she calls the cradle of the movement, during Fiesta on the Texas Road Trip.

In this conversation you learn why San Antonio holds this history, how Mexican Americans fought for the vote, and how to find your voice in a room that was not built to hear it.

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