My Mom has shared a lot with me and my sister about her youth and the struggle of being a Mexican American girl in a predominantly German town in Texas. As a girl, she knew she was being treated differently than her classmates. They liked her well enough but in public their differences were defined by others. When Mom was in junior high (middle school), she was invited to a friends birthday party that included a trip to see a movie at the Brauntex Theater – a segregated business where people of Mexican and African descent were relegated to the balcony.
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