Oral History Interview with Lorena Andrade, July 17, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Lorena Andrade, July 17, 2015

Interview with Lorena Andrade, civil rights and labor activist from El Paso, Texas. Ms. Andrade was born in Los Angeles, California and attended the University of Minnesota, where she became involved with Chicano activism. In El Paso, she has been an advocate for labor and founded the organization La Mujer Obrera, The Working Woman, to support women affected by NAFTA.
Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Andrade, Lorena; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Urdy on June 17, 2016. captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles Urdy on June 17, 2016.

Urdy talks about his life, politics, his time at Prairie View and student activism there; going to University of Texas as a black graduate student.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Urdy , Charles
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Michelle Barnes, June 17, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Michelle Barnes, June 17, 2016

Michelle Barnes grew up in Third Ward, a historic African American neighborhood in Houston, TX. She talks about the social, cultural, and economic vibrancy of Third Ward and how the drowing of a child in Sunnyside sparked her involvement in the Committee for Better Race Relations and the fight for African American Studies. While at the University of Houston, she played an active role in creating social organizations for Black students, particularly the creation of a Delta Sigma Theta chapter. Once she graduated from UH, Barnes participated in youth art programs at the SHAPE Community Center and eventually co-founded the Community Artists' Collective, which originally focused on providing a cooperative space for female African American artists and continues to be a major hub for African American art. She ends the interview by talking about how gentrification has affected the Third Ward community.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Barnes, Michelle; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert and Paul Noyola on June 17, 2016. captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert and Paul Noyola on June 17, 2016.

Robert and Paul discussed the history of the Noyola family, the different paths taken by various family members, and the political diversity within the family.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Bobadilla, Eladio; Noyola, Robert & Noyola, Paul
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Barbara Cooper, July 17, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Barbara Cooper, July 17, 2015

Interview with Barbara Cooper, retired business owner from Bryan, Texas. Cooper discusses her family history, childhood, education, work and family life, and experiences with Jim Crow segregation in Bryan
Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Cooper, Barbara & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Omowale Luthuli-Allen, June 17, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Omowale Luthuli-Allen, June 17, 2016

Omowale Lithuli-Allen was born in Amarillo in 1948, and grew up in Louisiana. He discusses growing up in the Jim Crow South and some of his early activism in high school. In 1966, he enrolled at the University of Houston, where he became involved in organizations such as COBER and Afro-Americans for Black Liberation (AABL). Following his activism at UH and Texas Southern University, he became involved in cross-racial coalitions, where he came together with Mexican American activists to address social, political, and economic inequalities in Houston. Mr. Lithuli-Allen also discusses the history of the role of SHAPE Center in the Third Ward, and his involvement with My Brother's Keeper, a youth outreach initiative by the Obama administration.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Luthuli-Allen, Omowale
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sydney Eloyce Green, June 17, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Sydney Eloyce Green, June 17, 2015

Interview with Sydney Eloyce Green, teacher from Tyler, Texas. In her interview, Green discusses her early life, education, family genealogy, and experiences with racial discrimination, and school integration in Tyler. Green's father was Sydney Earl (S.E.) Palmer, a community activist who worked to achieve integrated schools in Tyler.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Green, Sydney Eloyce & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Person, July 17, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert Person, July 17, 2015

Interview with Robert Person, an educator from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Person discusses higher education at Texas Southern University, activism at TSU, including the 1967 riot, segregation in Bryan, community activism, school integration, and race relations.
Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Person, Robert & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
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 Robin Green, June 17, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Robin Green, June 17, 2016

Robin Green was born and Raised in Clarendon, Texas. He attended McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. Afterward, he attended law school at Texas Tech University. He worked shortly as a prosecutor in Amarillo and later had a long career in Amarillo as a civil rights lawyer. He now practices law in Lubbock, Texas.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Green, Robin
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History