Excerpts from Interview with Alberta Snid, ca. 1978, Texas Labor Archives, Special Collections, University of Texas at Arlington.

       Yes it did some good at the time because I think we learned, we learned that through organization we could do something. Maybe we didn’t win that much as far as money wise was concerned, O.K. but we learned that being united is power. A single person cannot do anything, alone we cannot do anything. People are power. Yes, I think we learned a whole lot. I think we learned how to even defend ourselves more. I think we forgot a little bit of the fear that we had because before we couldn’t say nothing, we couldn’t talk, period. Afterwards it was entirely different and this part about Mexican women never being involved, that’s far from the truth, very far from the truth because even from the very beginning, even from the war in Mexico, women were involved in that war. O.K., maybe we have become or maybe we were in a sort of apathy because of our ignorance but we have always been involved in one, some sort of ways, whether it’s labor, whether it’s defending our families, whichever way--but Mexican women have been involved in many things. Not because our men were afraid but because we were afraid of what our men would do.