Latino Americans in Augusta Oral History Project: Aurora Muro Britton

Interview Summary

Aurora Muro Britton is of Spanish descent and was born in Cuba in the late 1920s. In this interview, she describes her youth and early adulthood in Cuba. She talks about the strong connection that the US and Cuba had prior to the Cuban Revolution and how different members of her family traveled to or lived in the US pre-Castro. Muro Britton speaks about her high school education and early university years in Cuba. She discusses how she met her future husband on a bus while visiting Florida and how they wrote to each other. They ultimately married, and she migrated to the United States prior to the Cuban Revolution.

She describes what has happened to the family home in Cuba since she left that country and expresses her opinions on Cuba post-Cuban Revolution. She discusses how she improved her English language skills, started working, and raised children. She was a working mother and used her earnings as a substitute teacher to pay for tuition at Augusta College, ultimately graduating from the school. Today, she describes herself as a “Southern cracker with an accent.” She talks about her extensive civic involvement in both the local Hispanic/Latino community and the larger Augusta/CSRA community over the decades, including in an early Hispanic/Latino community organization in Augusta. She talks about her hopes that the local Hispanic/Latino community will increase its civic involvement.  

This interview was lightly edited.