Historian Cynthia Orozco graduated from Cuero High School in 1976, but when she went to UT Austin for college, her true education and life’s work began.
“It was my first exposure to Mexican American history,” she said in an interview at the Cuero library. “That history was not in the textbooks at that time.”
Orozco said the subject piqued her interest, and she wound up writing a 20-page research paper on LULAC, or the League of United Latin American Citizens.
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