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Show I TERVIEv: Cuellar Page 6 RC: There's quite a number of organizations today, and I think that it would be n impossibility to even attempt to name them all. You know we have PASSO developed in Texas which expanded. Again, pretty soon PASSO went out of the way and you had other organizations come up like MECHA, like Raza Unida. But there cannot be any doubt that even when we're talking about the Brown Berets, there can't be any doubt that all these organizations large or s ~all, radical and non radical, middle of the readers have contributed to the development of the Chicano. We can say the Chicano population or the Spanish-speaking population, one way or another. You know the Corky Gonzalezes, the Reis Tejerinas, the Jose Angel Gutierezes they have done a tremendous job, not only in developing the organization of the Spanish-speaking population in terms of political, a political, a political movement. The voting rights, the awareness of the people, that they do have a responsibility to vote and make themselves be heard by the powers-to-be and that, of course, is the political process. But also in instilling within the Spanish-speaking population a sort of historical pride in the culture. I think I can sight an example of that. When I was an assistant registrar with North Texas State University, one of my duties was to screen students that were to be admitted to the University. We used to get many, many candidates for students from the Dallas-Fort Worth area and from the Dallas- |
