Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

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.

Interview with Abel Ochoa, educator from Donna, Texas. In the interview, Ochoa discusses his upbringing, education, military service, civil rights activism, and the Chicano movement in South Texas.

Interview with Antonio Orendain, civil rights activist and founder of the Texas Farm Workers Union (TFWU), from McAllen, Texas. In the interview, Orendain discusses his childhood and family background, working with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and the National Farm Workers Association in California, migrant farm workers, founding the TFWU, and his long career as a labor activist.

Interview with Jesus Ramirez, a lawyer from San Juan, Texas. During his interview, Ramirez discusses his family background, Chicano activism, including the Edcouch-Elsa student walkout, and La Raza Unita.

Interview with Ruben Rosales from Pharr, TX. In the interview, Rosales discusses his childhood, military service, experiences with segregation and discrimination, the Pharr riot of 1971 and its' aftermath, police brutality, the Chicano movement, and politics.

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.

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.

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a gas-powered spinning flame generator invented by a McAllen citrus farmer, intended to warm the air in his citrus groves and prevent cold weather from harming the fruit.

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.

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.

This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in McAllen, Texas and the nearby town of Mission. It includes footage of the Mission Citrus Fiesta of 1995, a citrus grove, and a square dance gathering. The film begins in Mission, TX, and captures footage of the Citrus Fiesta parade, including: family groups and spectators; souvenir vendors; the Mission High School JROTC Eagle Battalion of the US Army; Mission Junior High and Mission High School marching bands, dancers, color guard, and cheerleaders all in burgundy, white, and gold uniforms; various floats advertising "Border Fest", "Citrus Fiesta '95", "Texas, 1995", Converse shoe brand, Miss Hidalgo 1995, E.R. Chapa Elementary School, and Mission Bell Resort; bald eagle and bee mascots; female pageant winners in ball gowns; and the local police. The next segment of the film takes place in McAllen and features a citrus grove and an adjoining country store called Klement's Grove. The store sells and offers samples of citrus fruits like grapefruit, tangerines, and oranges. Miscellaneous scenes cover: a cookout and social gathering of senior citizens; a mission bell tower; and grazing cows. Last, the film shows an indoor square dance gathering, with traditional costumes, musicians, and dance leaders.

This film is unedited television footage regarding events and sites in McAllen, Texas. The first segment of the film includes Tony Roma’s restaurant of McAllen, a couple being filmed inside, and an interview with its General Manager and CEO, Richard D. Guerra. Guerra describes McAllen as the “home of the Texas Ruby Red grapefruit” and “square dancing capital of the world”. During the interview with Guerra, an off-camera female crew member says that she is shooting footage for “Discover America” and mentions the show’s producer. Throughout the footage in this film, the crew talks casually off-camera while filming panoramas of the city and its town square. The next segment of the video follows a group of senior citizens visiting sites near the Mexican border. They walk through an open air market, they approach border crossing to Reynosa, Mexico, they watch orioles and other birds at the Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park of the Texas Park and Wildlife Department, and then they leave the park in an RV. Next, a female crewmember appears on camera and poses as a visitor to a mission, as the crew film shots of the mission interior and grounds. The film ends at the Rio …