Scavernger Hunt: the First Mexican School in Corpus Christ Marker

The first challenge Senor Martinez threw down was that of finding out where this marker was. Not gonna  lie, it was super easy. Well, to figure out where the marker was easy , but as a Corpus Christi teen with minimal driving skills, especially in the downtown area full of confusing one ways, it was very difficult to actually get there.

 

I'll skip the specifics on how long it got there because I am not all that comfortable embarrassing myself, especially on the forever internet. What is important is that in the end, I did in fact get there. Along with my partner and radio specialist, Sabrina Chapa (and her boyfriend Andrew Garcia who took the picture(Give credit where credit is due.)). 

 

That's me and Sabrina at the marker,it explains in detail what it is so you should definitely read it and save me the expense of having to reiterate the description. But in essence the marker is for the Cheston L. Heath School, the first school where Hispanics could attend, that taught Mexican Americans English and other academics in 1896 until 168 when the schools were integrated. The importance though, might be a bit more hidden. Corpus Christi is populated primarily of people of Hispanic heritage and has been so since the inception of the town. That being, before the school, Mexican American and Hispanics were not being educated. It was a huge step in civil right in Corpus because Education makes huge differences in minority culture because it begins to allow people to know where oppression is occurring and gives them an ability to stop it. SO the education allowed for Corpus Christi to begin the temper into a more equal playing field  .