Aurora Estrada Orozco (May 8, 1918 – February 9, 2011) was a Mexican-American community leader and writer. Aurora Estrada Orozco was born on May 8, 1918, in Cerralvo,

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, Mexico. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was young. She attended schools in

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, and graduated from Mercedes High School in 1937. She attended business classes at the

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before marrying Primitivo Orozco Vega in 1950. They moved to

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. She had six children and was active with her local Parent-Teacher Association. Orozco worked at Lieberman's Department Store and became an active community leader. She organized a

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(LULAC) in Cuero in the 1970s and served as its secretary. She was secretary of Familias Unidas of Cuero from 1975 to 1977. She was the chief representative for the

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in Cuero from 1974 to 1978. Orozco also wrote in Spanish. Her works included an autobiography, poetry and short stories. Orozco died on February 9, 2011, in Austin, Texas.

References

*Mata, Desirée (October 17, 2003)
Interview with Aurora Estrada Orozco
VOCES Oral History Project, University of Texas Libraries *McArthur, Judith N. and Harold L. Smith, Texas Through Women's Eyes (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010). *Orozco, Aurora E. "Mexican Blood Runs Through My Veins, " Speaking Chicana Voice, Power, and Identity ed. D. Letticia Galindo and Maria Dolores Gonzales (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999), 106-120. *Orozco, Aurora E. "No me quites mi espanol/Don't Take Away My Spanish" and "Idioma/Language," Entre Guadalupe y Malinche Tejanas in Literature, ed. Ines Hernandez-Avila & Norma Elia Cantu (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016), 143-146. {{DEFAULTSORT:Orozco, Aurora Estrada 1918 births 2011 deaths American writers of Mexican descent People from Cuero, Texas People from Cerralvo, Nuevo León McCombs School of Business alumni Mexican emigrants to the United States American autobiographers

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