Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 9, numbers 91 through 101

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The following is an interview of Manuel F. Lopez taken at Burley, Idaho on June 7, 1973. The interviewer is Greg Coronado. This is Tape II. ML: I guess this is going back into my social work, I guess, more than any social problem. On my appointments and all that, when I first came here it was a little hard just like anything else, 'cause I was new at it. But then I went to work pretty hard. I guess my first appointment was with the Human Rights Commission, you know, discrimination and things. Like I say, the· only Chicano on it, as a Commissioner for the state, out of nine appointments, I was selected, you know. And then my second appointment for the government was with the White House Conference on Aging, also I was appointed by the Governor on that. From that, then I became an advisor to the Governor, on the Governor's Advisory Committee; and then I was appointed also by the governor and the Region Ten Director, Jim Yarborough, as one of the members of the Advisory Committee for the Region Ten, which covers the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and the state of Alaska. GC: And what does this Region Ten, of what? ML: This is, Region Ten, is called the Region Ten which is the states like from Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and just a little part of Wyoming, and Alaska, which you know most of the states had in the Region. It's divided into, at those times, it used ... the reason it was divided at those times was on account of the ·