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Martha Tijerina developed her career in San Antonio at the first Spanish language station in the continental United States. She covered national news and local stories on her talk show, “En San Antonio” and served as an advocate for her community, giving voice and a platform to rising Mexican American leaders.
Melinda Machado is Director of the Office of Communications and Marketing, National Museum of American History.
This video series is made possible with federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino.
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Martha Tijerina realizó su carrera en San Antonio, en la primera estación en español de los Estados Unidos continentales. Cubrió noticias nacionales e historias locales en su programa de entrevistas “En San Antonio”, y se desempeñó como promotora de su comunidad, dando voz y una plataforma a los líderes mexicoestadounidenses en ascenso.
Melinda Machado es directora de la Oficina de Comunicaciones y Mercadotecnia del Museo Nacional de Historia Estadounidense.
Esta serie de videos es posible gracias al apoyo federal del Fondo de Iniciativas Latinas, administrado por el Museo Nacional del Latinoamericano.
https://s.si.edu/latinas-talk-latinas
Martha Tijerina developed her career in San Antonio at the first Spanish language station in the continental United States. She covered national news and local stories on her talk show, “En San Antonio” and served as an advocate for her community, giving voice and a platform to rising Mexican American leaders.
Melinda Machado is Director of the Office of Communications and Marketing, National Museum of American History.
This video series is made possible with federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino.
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Martha Tijerina realizó su carrera en San Antonio, en la primera estación en español de los Estados Unidos continentales. Cubrió noticias nacionales e historias locales en su programa de entrevistas “En San Antonio”, y se desempeñó como promotora de su comunidad, dando voz y una plataforma a los líderes mexicoestadounidenses en ascenso.
Melinda Machado es directora de la Oficina de Comunicaciones y Mercadotecnia del Museo Nacional de Historia Estadounidense.
Esta serie de videos es posible gracias al apoyo federal del Fondo de Iniciativas Latinas, administrado por el Museo Nacional del Latinoamericano.
https://s.si.edu/latinas-talk-latinas

![Hear My Voice: Graphophone with wax recording (cylinder is coated with wax), 1881
Speaker: Alexander Melville Bell, father of Alexander Graham Bell
Content: “[trilled r sounds] There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy [trilled r sound]. I am a graphophone, and my mother was a phonograph.” Hear My Voice: Graphophone with wax recording (cylinder is coated with wax), 1881](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pd6Rgrlbrxw/mqdefault.jpg)




![Hear My Voice: Sound recording, glass disc with photographic emulsion, made March 11, 1885
“. . . and H. G. Rogers. It’s the eleventh day of March, 1885 [trilled r sound]. Who pushed in the pipe? Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow . . . . Everywhere that Mary went . . . [startled noise] [tone]. Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went, the little lamb was sure to go. How is this for high? . . .” Hear My Voice: Sound recording, glass disc with photographic emulsion, made March 11, 1885](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QTlNDnTJIfA/mqdefault.jpg)



