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Oral History Interview with Herby Garza, June 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Herby Garza, June 27, 2016

Herby Garza discussed career as a letter carrier in Corpus Christi and president of the Letter Carriers Union local.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Accuna-Gurrola, Moises; Wall, James & Garza, Herby
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bene Figueroa, June 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Bene Figueroa, June 27, 2016

Mr. Figueroa recounted his role as a Robstown school board member during 1969 walkouts.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Figueroa, Bene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with O.B. Garcia, July 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with O.B. Garcia, July 27, 2016

Mr. Garcia discussed growing up in the Coastal Bend area and his career as a principal in Corpus Christi.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Wall, James & Garcia, O.B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Angelica Tijerina-Taylor, July 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Angelica Tijerina-Taylor, July 27, 2016

Tijerina-Taylor discussed growing up in Robstown and her career as a teacher.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Wall, James & Tijerina-Taylor, Angelica
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Rebecca Flores, July 10, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Rebecca Flores, July 10, 2016

Rebecca talks about growing up in rural areas and in San Antonio, working in the fields, her time at Texas A&I, and her politicization at University of Michigan; she also talks about feminism; she also talks about her exclusion from the Chicano Movement to a certain degree because she worked full time;
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Flores, Rebecca
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Rebecca Flores, July 10, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Rebecca Flores, July 10, 2016

Rebecca talks about growing up in rural areas and in San Antonio, working in the fields, her time at Texas A&I, and her politicization at University of Michigan; she also talks about feminism; she also talks about her exclusion from the Chicano Movement to a certain degree because she worked full time.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Flores, Rebecca
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Betell Benham, June 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Betell Benham, June 27, 2016

Ms. Benham was born and raised in Lufkin, Texas. She went to segregated schools in Lufkin before participating in integration during the 1969-1970 school year. She graduated high school and went to college at the University of North Texas. She then became a flight attendant and worked in retail. She returned to Lufkin and worked with her mother, Bettie Kennedy, in the community. In the interview, Ms. Benham describes segregation in Lufkin, experiences with discrimination, problems during integration, discrimination she experienced at UNT, her work as a flight attendant, her time spent in retail, and the work of both her and her mother in the community.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Benham, Betell; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wanda Marie Fannin Henderson, October 27, 1999 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Wanda Marie Fannin Henderson, October 27, 1999

Interview with Wanda Marie Fannin Henderson, a businesswoman from Kerrville, Texas. The interview includes her stories of working on a dude ranch and owning several businesses, as well as participating in organizations and the Kerr County community.
Date: October 27, 1999
Creator: Bethel, Ann; Henderson, Wanda Marie Fannin Henderson & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George Allen and Mary Virginia Stevens Holekamp, September 27, 2000 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with George Allen and Mary Virginia Stevens Holekamp, September 27, 2000

Interview with George Allen and Mary Virginia Stevens Holekamp, a couple from Kerrville, Texas. The interview includes their stories of both the Holekamp and Stevens families, as well as the couple's ranching and community activities.
Date: September 27, 2000
Creator: Bethel, Ann; Holekamp, George Allen; Holekamp, Mary Virginia Stevens & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bigler Family Videos, No. 9 - At Home with Baby Christopher] captions transcript

[Bigler Family Videos, No. 9 - At Home with Baby Christopher]

This home movie excerpt documents baby Christopher at home in his playpen and eating in his high chair.
Date: August 27, 1988
Creator: Bigler
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jew Don Boney, July 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Jew Don Boney, July 27, 2016

Jew Don Boney, Jr. was born in 1951 in Temple. His first experience with segregation was when his mother was initally denied entry into Scott and White Hospital when she went into labor with Boney. His parents were educators and his father wrote a dissertation on the racial biases in standarized testing while pursuing a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Boney relocated to Austin in 1966 and attended the University of Texas at Austin in the Fall of 1969. He became involved in Black-Brown student activism at this time. After spending a few years in radio and TV, Boney worked for the Urban League and became the Chairman of the National Black United Front Chapter in Houston. He later served as a city councilman for District D and a Mayor Pro Tem. Boney dedicated three years to the Free Clarence Bradley Campaign in order to exonerate a man falsely accused of the rape and murder of a white woman in Conroe, spent time bridging African and U.S. relations, advanced economic initiatives in Africa, and secured grants to process the Mickey Leland Papers at Texas Southern University while he served as the Associate Director for …
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Boney, Jew Don; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bradley Family Videos, No. 21 - Hannah's Birthday] captions transcript

[Bradley Family Videos, No. 21 - Hannah's Birthday]

This home movie excerpt documents a Bradley family gathering after Christmas. Footage includes children playing with a toy Santa Claus that blows bubbles and Hannah blowing out candles on a birthday cake.
Date: December 27, 1996
Creator: Bradley
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Bradley Family Videos, No. 23 - Church Pageant] captions transcript

[Bradley Family Videos, No. 23 - Church Pageant]

This home movie excerpt documents members of the Bradley family at a youth church pageant.
Date: April 27, 1997
Creator: Bradley
System: The Portal to Texas History
Draw Me Near: Video captions transcript

Draw Me Near: Video

Timelapsed video from the MFA Exhibition "Draw Me Near" as shown at the Cora Stafford Gallery. In this video, friends, family members, and colleagues dine with the artist during the exhibition.
Date: March 27, 2019
Creator: Casillas, Horacio
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Daniel Caudillo, July 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Daniel Caudillo, July 27, 2016

Daniel Caudillo was born to Mexican immigrants in Odessa, Texas. He grew up as a migrant child with a home base in Odessa. Caudillo graduated from Permian High School in 2000, and then briefly attended Odessa College and the University of Texas-Permian Basin. He graduated from Texas Tech University in 2003 and then the Law School of Texas Tech University in 2007. Caudillo then went to work for an immigration law firm in El Paso, Texas; he opened his own law firm dedicated to immigration law in 2008 with offices in both El Paso and Odessa. Caudillo advises the public on immigration law through various non-profits.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Caudillo, Daniel; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Divin Family Videos, No. 4 -  Cruser's Angels] captions transcript

[Divin Family Videos, No. 4 - Cruser's Angels]

This video is a spoof of the "Charlies Angels" television series starring three recording industry employees--Holly Gongob, Sheryl Divin, and Kristy Kelly-- who receive an assignment from Cruser to achieve "total market coverage." The video follows the women as they prepare for their assignment, ask a music store clerk to play Audio Dynamite, and as they display marketing materials at the store. The women choose between posters of Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Neil Diamond, Riders in the Sky, Collin Raye, Shelby Lynne, Doug Stone, and Joan Jett.
Date: August 27, 1991
Creator: Divin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mary Margaret Hall Doyen, February 27, 2001 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Mary Margaret Hall Doyen, February 27, 2001

Interview with Mary Margaret Hall Doyen from Kerrville, Texas. The interview includes her stories of her family businesses and life in Kerrville.
Date: February 27, 2001
Creator: Doyen, Mary Margaret Hall; Bethel, Ann & Snodgrass, Clarabelle
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David T. Lopez, June 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with David T. Lopez, June 27, 2016

David T. Lopez was born in Laredo, TX. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he became involved as a reporter and editor for the Daily Texan and the Texas Ranger. His involvement in news reporting lead him to work for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, where he reported on Black and Brown efforts in school desegregation. Attracted by Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers movement, Lopez would participate in the strikes in the Rio Grande Valley and would report on the repressive tactics of the Texas Rangers as a plaintiff in the Medrano v. Allee lawsuit. He eventually got his law degree at South Texas College of Law in Houston and worked as a field representative for the AFL-CIO. Lopez discusses how he served on the HISD school board, the politics of the Huelga School Strike, how he was one of the first lecturers for the University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies, and police brutality.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Lopez, David T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Ties and Tux Gala Honoring Curtis King] captions transcript

[Ties and Tux Gala Honoring Curtis King]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Ties and Tux Gala Honoring Curtis King event in 2013. The video shows various members of TBAAL and guests celebrating the work of founder and president, Curtis King including speeches and performances. The event was held at the Downtown Dallas Omni Hotel.
Date: April 27, 2013
Creator: Evans, Tracy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Brenda Spivey on June 27, 2016. captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Brenda Spivey on June 27, 2016.

Discussed her mother's work as a domestic, the family's encounters with racism, her entrepreneurship, and her work on civil rights and black women's empowerment.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Grevious, Danielle; Bobadilla, Eladio & Spivey, Brenda
System: The Portal to Texas History
["Many Voices, One Vision: A Dance of Praise", 1 of 5] captions transcript

["Many Voices, One Vision: A Dance of Praise", 1 of 5]

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during "Many Voices, One Vision: A Dance of Praise" held at the Naomi Bruton Theatre on October 27th, 2007. The footage shows various ensembles of dancers performing to gospel and spiritual music.
Date: October 27, 2007
Creator: Hood, Dion
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bernest Mitchell, July 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Bernest Mitchell, July 27, 2016

Mr. Mitchell was born and raised in Stamps, Arkansas. Mitchell traveled to the Cleveland area after the saw mill in Arkansas was shut down. Mr. Mitchell received his barber's license and started his own barbershop in the 1960s. Mr. Mitchell worked in other industries while sustaining his barber shop. Mr. Mitchell and other members of the Cleveland Black community organized in efforts to integrate Cleveland. They attended several government meetings and negotiated with officials. Mr. Mitchell once showed up at a meeting of the local white citizen council and received death threats after revealing his opinion about the council's proposal of halting integration by providing more funding for the Cleveland Black school. Following the meeting, Mitchell received a death threat by a local pastor. Mitchell ultimately served for decades on the Cleveland school board after being elected in the 1960s.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmin & Mitchell, Bernest
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Thomas Weir Labatt, III, April 27, 2022 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Thomas Weir Labatt, III, April 27, 2022

Interview with Thomas Weir Labatt, III, community leader from San Antonio. Weir Labatt discusses the history of his family, which had roots in Kerrville, his grandfather's company, his career in water conservation, and the various leadership positions he held in Kerrville and San Antonio.
Date: April 27, 2022
Creator: Jones, Mary Elaine & Labatt, Thomas Weir, III
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: 2-fer] captions transcript

[News Clip: 2-fer]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 27, 1984, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library