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Oral History Interview with Chris Escobar, July 25, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Chris Escobar, July 25, 2016

Chris Escobar is an artist activist who does outreach at La Casa de la Cultura in Del Rio. In the interview, he speaks about migrant work, his father as a vaquero, going on the migrant trail, etc. He also speaks about college and the difficulties of being poor and its attendant effects on his studies at St Edwards & UTEP. He talks a little bit about Austin & learning from Raúl Valdez.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & Escobar, Chris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lupe Sotelo, July 25, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Lupe Sotelo, July 25, 2016

Lupe Sotelo is a Del Rio native and a former student of the San Felipe ISD. He also taught at San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District schools after consolidation, and went on to work as principal and superintendent in other communities in Texas. Mr. Sotelo talked about the encouragement of teachers at San Felipe and how he could have been considered an "at risk" student in his youth. The second half of the interview features Sotelo's interpretation of the events surrounding the consolidation of the school districts with the hindsight of having worked as an administrator later in his career.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & Sotelo, Lupe
System: The Portal to Texas History