anglos lived on another side, and she kind of transcended that. she was gentle and sweet and beautiful. lynda de la vina is another cousin. she was really a role model, and to see how she had gone through college, was a teacher, was a beauty queen and yet was just a very sweet and simple person to us as children. but in 1960, the body of this inspiring woman was found face down in this canal. she was 25, the age for thinking about getting married and raising a family. she didn t have a life. irene never had that chance. irene garza lived in this house in what was a very nice neighborhood near downtown mcallen and remains so today. she lived here with her sister and parents. on the saturday before easter, she hopped in her car for a short, five-minute ride to her
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even in the hospital mexican americans and anglos were treated in separate wards. but when irene garza was born in 1934, her parents were determined that she and her sister josephine would transcend the discrimination together. we were very tight. we were very close because it was like us against all of those that were prejudice against us. prejudice against hispanics? hispanics, yes. and my dad fostered that because we re in it together. in their parents day public schools for mcallen s hispanic children only went to fifth grade. but the garzas had bigger dreams for their daughters. from the beginning we were told, when you go to college, when you go to college, it was something that was just a thing that was going to happen. if education was to be the
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