Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Interesting Facts

-Maxine Baca Zinn was passionate about music in her earlier years, she played the clarinet as a child which later earned her a band scholarship to attend Texas Western College.
-She left Santa Fe in search for a non-discriminatory place and instead ended up in El Paso where she felt the discrimination was worse.
-She felt discrimination while trying to join sororities in College. Was told by a higher rank authority in a widely recognized University that Mexicans were just not accepted to sororities.

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