Education and Discrimination, from 2018 interviews

Yolanda Romero attests to the lack of Latino students in Trinidad State College. She notes that economic privileged students were more likely to attend while Georganne agrees and adds that access to scholarships were a determining factor to go in. Length: 4:06.

In this 2018 interview, Yolanda Romero delves into her own experiences in Trinidad State Junior College and how Latinos were underrepresented. Jack Vallejos also speaks to the convenience of  having the college so close to him as well as the added advantage that the GI Bill gave him in 1968. Length: 4:35.

This 2018 interview with Shantell and Samantha goes into how schools in Trinidad discriminate Latino students. Specifically, they both give their testimony to how their own daughter and niece has been disproportionately denied help from schools in relation to her white peers. Length: 2:31.

Judge Manzanares recalls how when he grew up there was an imbalance of language. In his home, Spanish and English were spoken as compared to English only in his schools. 2018. Length: 00:48.

In this 2018 interview, Judge Manzanares responds to the amount of Latino students during his time in law school. He was chosen as one of the few Latino students from the Ford Foundation to attend law school. He later went on to become dean of this very program where he noticed the size of Latino students decreased. Length: 3:11.

Judge Manzanares shares his educational experiences in Trinidad State College all the way to his other educational experiences to get into law school. 2018. Length: 1:38.

Mayor Garduno talks about the struggles she experienced growing up and being discouraged from going to school and how that parallels to the way Latino youth today are discouraged from higher education. 2018. Length: 1:45.