This is Julian Castro's mother-sounds like a great lady
The segregated barrios of the city's West Side a half-century ago were an unlikely inspiration for Maria del Rosario Castro, the daughter of an orphaned Mexican immigrant who as a girl picked ticks from white families' cocker spaniels.
She grew into a firebrand, the matriarch of a new political generation, from the broken streets of her youth that flooded when it rained.
The neighborhood starkly contrasted the picturesque Alamo Heights homes that her mother cleaned while “Rosie” tended to the dogs in the backyard.
Her neighbors lacked decent city services and a strong voice to say so. Blacks and Hispanics were missing from the clergy and the classrooms, from white-collar jobs and from City Hall.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/From-political-matriarch-the-sons-also-rise-3905913.php
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I had not seen your thread when I posted this today:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511049765#post130
Here she is, third from left, while running for City Council in 1971:
