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DURÁN, Raúl (b. 1955)

Oral Histories

OH 1821

For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Career Navigator for the Empowering Families Project (Catholic Charities) and Hispanic community activist. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; witnessing discrimination against African Americans; navigating an Anglo-dominated world as a Mexican American; experiencing discrimination; participation in LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens); activism for educational attainment in Fort Worth’s Hispanic community, with Anglos as Chicano politics; self-identifying as Mexicano; work with Catholic Charities.