MACRI Talk - Henry Cisneros: The Making of a Mayor

Join MACRI for a free virtual film screening and plática with Henry Cisneros and Oscar Garza. Forty years ago, on April 4, 1981, Henry Cisneros made history becoming the first Mexican American mayor of San Antonio in modern times and the first Mexican American mayor of a major US city. That same year, Oscar Garza, then a producer at the local PBS station KLRN, created a documentary film on the historic achievement. We will stream the film Henry Cisneros: The Making of a Mayor, and then have a conversation about Cisneros' legacy and the current state of Mexican Americans in politics.

Oscar Garza is a Senior Editor at KPCC (NPR) in Los Angeles. He was a Senior Editor for 15 years at the Los Angeles Times; a columnist and Arts Editor at the San Antonio Light; and a Senior Producer at KLRN in San Antonio, where he wrote, produced and…