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Oral History Interview with Juanita Valdez-Cox, June 17, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Juanita Valdez-Cox, June 17, 2015

Interview with Juanita Valdez-Cox, a non-profit community organizer from San Juan, Texas. In her interview, Valdez-Cox discusses racial discrimination in the Rio Grande Valley, work with migrant children, the farm workers' movement in Texas, labor organizing, and community organizations.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Valdez-Cox, Juanita; Gutierrez, Jose Angel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Flora Gossett, June 19, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Flora Gossett, June 19, 2015

Interview with Flora Gossett, a retired domestic worker and church secretary, from Tyler, Texas. In the interview she describes her early life, experiences with Jim Crow discrimination in East Texas.
Date: June 19, 2015
Creator: Gossett, Flora; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Nash, George Elmore, and Claretta Allen, June 30, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with John Nash, George Elmore, and Claretta Allen, June 30, 2015

Interview with John Nash, George Elmore, and Claretta Allen, labor activists from Kilgore, Texas. In the interview, Nash, Elmore, and Allen discuss discrimination at the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, the Kilgore community, and labor organizing and unions in East Texas.
Date: June 30, 2015
Creator: Nash, John; Elmore, George; Allen, Claretta; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Katherlene Onic, June 23, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Katherlene Onic, June 23, 2015

Interview with Katherlene Onic, a nurse from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Onic discusses her family background, education, experiences with discrimination, activism at Wiley College, labor unions, the NAACP, and race relations.
Date: June 23, 2015
Creator: Onic, Katherlene; Dulaney, Marvin & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Andrew Melontree, June 22, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Andrew Melontree, June 22, 2015

Interview with Andrew Melontree, a retired lawyer from Marlin, Texas. Melontree discusses his upbringing, education, experiences with discrimination and Jim Crow, his military service in the Air Force in the Korean War, his work as a laboratory technician, and his civil rights activism in Tyler.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Melontree, Andrew & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Miguel de los Santos June 24, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Miguel de los Santos June 24, 2015

Interview with Miguel de los Santos, an educator from Edinburg, Texas. He discusses his childhood, education, his career as a school principal, and later a superintendent of schools in communities in Texas.
Date: June 24, 2015
Creator: de los Santos, Miguel & Enriquez, Sandra
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wilson, Mrs. Charles, June 6, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Wilson, Mrs. Charles, June 6, 2015

Interview with Mrs. Charles Wilson, president of the Harrison County NAACP from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Mrs. Wilson discusses her family background, early education, living in a segregated neighborhood, and her education. She also talks about the effects of school integration, racial violence, and resistance to civil rights. Wilson also discusses her family life and work as a teacher. Finally she discusses the current state of racial equality in Marshall.
Date: June 6, 2015
Creator: Wilson, Mrs. Charles & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gloria Moon, June 25, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gloria Moon, June 25, 2015

Interview with Gloria Moon, an educator from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Moon discusses her family background, school integration in Marshall, and her experiences with racial discrimination.
Date: June 25, 2015
Creator: Moon, Gloria; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Dulaney, Marvin & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lawrence Harper, June 26, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Lawrence Harper, June 26, 2015

Interview with Lawrence Harper, small business owner from Big Sandy, Texas. In the interview, Harper discusses his early life and education, school integration, his time working for Exxon, labor organizing, and community outreach.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: Harper, Lawrence; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Bynum, Katherine & Dulaney, W. Marvin
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Wilborn, June 25, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with John Wilborn, June 25, 2015

Interview with John Wilborn, an educator from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Wilborn discusses his early life, growing up under Jim Crow segregation, community activism, attending college, military service, school integration, and becoming involved in local politics in Marshall.
Date: June 23, 2015
Creator: Wilborn, John; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Dulaney, Marvin & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ofelia de los Santos, June 26, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Ofelia de los Santos, June 26, 2015

Interview with Ofelia de los Santos, a retired attorney from Edinburg, Texas. In her interview she discusses her civil rights activism in South Texas, community organization Valley Interfaith, La Raza Unida party, and women in the Chicano movement.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: de los Santos, Ofelia; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Manuel Medrano, June 18, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Manuel Medrano, June 18, 2015

Interview with Manuel Medrano, an historian and author from Brownsville, Texas. In his interview, Medrano discusses his family background and childhood, education, experiences with discrimination, political activism, and the Chicano movement.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Medrano, Manuel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with RC Salinas, June 25, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with RC Salinas, June 25, 2015

Interview with RC Salinas, an educator from Rio Grande City, Texas. In the interview, Salinas discusses his early life, education at Texas A&M, career, Chicano activism, religion, and the history of Rio Grande City.
Date: June 25, 2015
Creator: Salinas, RC; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Maricela Lozano, June 24, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Maricela Lozano, June 24, 2015

Interview with Maricela Lozano, business owner from Elsa, Texas. In the interview, Lozano discusses her early life, experiences with discrimination at school, student walkouts, activism, and politics. Lozano discusses the 1968 Edcouch-Elsa student walkout.
Date: June 24, 2015
Creator: Lozano, Maricela; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eddie Canales, June 30, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Eddie Canales, June 30, 2015

Interview with Eddie Canales, is a civil rights activist and former union organizer from Falfurrias, Texas. He is the founder of the South Texas Human Rights Center. In his interview, Canales discusses his childhood, education, and activism in Texas.
Date: June 3, 2015
Creator: Canales, Eddie; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Rey Avila, June 18, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Rey Avila, June 18, 2015

Interview with Rey Avila, founder of Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum in San Benito, Texas. Mr. Avila discusses his early life, education, his experiences as a young migrant worker, the history of Conjunto music in Texas, and the Chicano movement. Part of the interview takes place in the gallery of the museum.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Avila, Rey; Gutierrez, Jose Angel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lula Stroud, June 29, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Lula Stroud, June 29, 2015

Interview with Lula Stroud, a retired postal worker from McAllen, Texas. In her interview, Stroud discusses her family history, experiences with segregation, and living along the U.S./Mexico border.
Date: June 29, 2015
Creator: Stroud, Lula; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dalila Dolenz, June 10 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Dalila Dolenz, June 10 2015

Interview with Dalila Dolenz, a nurse and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas. In the interview, she discusses her work, activism and interaction with Cesar Chavez
Date: June 10, 2015
Creator: Dolenz, Dalila; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Sims, June 26, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with John Sims, June 26, 2015

Interview with John Sims, a radio broadcaster from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Sims discusses his family background, the Civil Rights Movement, beginning a broadcasting career, and engaging with the Black and Latino communities in Tyler through his radio program, community race relations, and the current racial climate in Tyler.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: Sims, John; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Narciso Aleman, June 29, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Narciso Aleman, June 29, 2015

Interview with Narciso Aleman, civil rights activist from Pharr, Texas. He discusses his early life, education, involvement with the Chicano movement, Colegio Jacinto Treviño, and civil rights activism in South Texas.
Date: June 29, 2015
Creator: Aleman, Narciso; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Maria Rodriguez, June 18, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Maria Rodriguez, June 18, 2015

Interview with Maria Rodriguez, from Brownsville, Texas. In the interview, Rodriguez discusses her childhood, tenant farming, migrant labor, experiences with discrimination, and family life.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Rodriguez, Maria; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Rogelio Nuñez, June 16, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Rogelio Nuñez, June 16, 2015

Interview with Rogelio Nuñez, executive director of legal defense and advocacy organization Proyecto Libertad from Harlingen, Texas. In the interview, Nuñez discusses his early life and education, Chicano activism, and Proyecto Libertad.
Date: June 16, 2015
Creator: Nuñez, Rogelio; Gutierrez, Jose Angel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Zephaniah Timmins, June 18, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Zephaniah Timmins, June 18, 2015

Interview with Zephaniah Timmins, Harrison County Commissioner from Marshall, Texas. In his interview, Timmins discusses his family history, experiences with segregation and discrimination, civil rights activism, and his involvement in local politics.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Timmins, Zephaniah & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Trinidad "Trini" Garza, June 10, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Trinidad "Trini" Garza, June 10, 2015

Interview with Trinidad "Trini" Garza, a civic leader and businessman from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, Garza discusses his early life, education, migrant work, military service, studying engineering at Texas A&M, his community service and activism in Dallas, and his work on the school board.
Date: June 11, 2015
Creator: Garza, Trinidad & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History