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Oral History Interview with Carlos Moore, July 29, 2015
Interview with Carlos Moore, from Fort Worth, Texas. In his interview, he discusses his early life and family history, time in the military, race relations in Fort Worth, labor unions and Democratic party activities.
Date:
July 29, 2015
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Krochmal, Max & Moore, Carlos
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alicia Chacon, July 25, 2016
Interview with Alicia Chacon, the first Mexican-American woman to be elected as a city council representative from El Paso, Texas. She was also elected to the school board and as county clerk. Chacon discusses her community involvement and political career, including working in the Jimmy Carter administration.
Date:
July 25, 2015
Creator:
Chacon, Alicia; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Fermin Dorado, July 24, 2015
Interview with Fermin Dorado, civil rights activist from El Paso, Texas. In his interview, Dorado discusses growing up in the Segundo Barrio in El Paso, his education, living in Chicago, military service, and his activism in the Chicano movement.
Date:
July 24, 2015
Creator:
Robles, David; Enriquez, Sandra & Dorado, Fermin
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Salvador Avila, July 24, 2015
Interview with Salvador Avila, a civil rights activist from Canutillo, Texas. Mr. Avila discusses his early life, education, career, race relations and his involvement with civil rights and community organizations in the El Paso area.
Date:
July 24, 2015
Creator:
Avila, Salvador; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Salvador Balcorta, July 24, 2015 (Part 2)
Interview with Salvador Balcorta, the CEO of Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe clinic in El Paso. Mr. Balcorta discusses his work in providing healthcare in El Paso and surrounding communities, his Chicano activism,working against gang violence, the Chicano AIDS Coalition, substandard housing and education in El Paso. This is the second of two interviews Mr. Balcorta participated in.
Date:
July 24, 2015
Creator:
Balcorta, Salvador; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Halcyon Watkins, July 23, 2015
Interview with Halcyon Watkins, a veterinarian from Prairie View, Texas. In her interview, Watkins discusses her family background, and her education at St. Frances de Sales School in Virginia, a Catholic boarding school for African American girls. She also discusses her education at Texas Southern University and Tuskegee University. While a student at TSU, Watkins participated in lunch counter and bus station sit-ins in Houston.
Date:
July 23, 2015
Creator:
Watkins, Halcyon & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Harrison, July 23, 2015
Interview with James Harrison, a civil rights activist from Huntsville, Texas. In the interview, Harrison discusses his early life, education, Jim Crow segregation, and his work in the civil rights movement.
Date:
July 23, 2015
Creator:
Harrison, James & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pete Duarte, July 23, 2015
Interview with Pete Duarte from El Paso, Texas.
Date:
July 23, 2015
Creator:
Robles, David & Duarte, Pete
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Salvador Balcorta, July 7, 2015 (Part 1)
Interview with Salvador Balcorta, the CEO of Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe clinic in El Paso. Mr. Balcorta discusses his family background and education, and the founding of the La Fe clinic. This is the first of two interviews Mr. Balcorta participated in.
Date:
July 23, 2015
Creator:
Balcorta, Salvador; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alphonso Saenz, July 22, 2015
Interview with Al Saenz, a city councilman from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Saenz discusses his family background, civil rights organizations and the Mexican-American community in Bryan. Saenz also discusses time living in Houston during his childhood.
Date:
July 22, 2015
Creator:
Saenz, Alphonso & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Felipe Peralta, July 22, 2015
Interview with Felipe Peralta, community activist from El Paso, Texas. In the interview, Peralta discusses his childhood and education, the Chamizal Treaty, student activism, community organizations, race relations, politics, the Chicano movement, and labor unions.
Date:
July 22, 2015
Creator:
Peralta, Felipe & Enriquez, Sandra
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Homero Galicia, July 21, 2015
Interview with Homero Galicia, a college instructor from El Paso, Texas. In the interview, Galicia discusses his childhood, education, military service, civil rights activism, his career and later community involvement.
Date:
July 21, 2015
Creator:
Galicia, Homero; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James E. Johnson, July 21, 2015
Interview with James E. Johnson, a retired professor of education from Prairie View, Texas. Johnson earned a doctorate from Texas A&M in 1967 and taught at Prairie View A&M and Texas Southern University. In his interview, he discusses his early life, military service, attending Texas A&M, racial integration, and his career as an educator.
Date:
July 21, 2015
Creator:
Johnson, James E. & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ann Boney, July 20, 2015
Interview with Ann Boney, retired staff of Texas A&M University and president of the Brazos County NAACP from Bryan, Texas. Boney describes her early life and education, her employment around the state, including working at the Benz School of Floral Design at Texas A&M. Ms. Boney also discusses her experiences as president of her local chapter of the NAACP and current community issues addressed by the organization.
Date:
July 20, 2015
Creator:
Boney, Ann; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Fernando Chacon, July 20, 2015
Interview with Fernando Chacon, lawyer and activist from El Paso, Texas. In the interview Chacon discusses his early life and education, his advocacy for migrant workers, his activism in the Chicano movement, and El Paso politics.
Date:
July 20, 2015
Creator:
Chacon, Fernando; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 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 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 Frank Jackson, July 7, 2015
Interview with Frank Jackson, mayor of Prairie View, Texas. In the interview, Jackson discusses his early life and education in Luling, Texas, living under Jim Crow, his service in the U.S. Navy, the incorporation of Prairie View, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Date:
July 16, 2015
Creator:
Jackson, Frank & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Guillermo Glenn, July 16, 2015
Interview with Guillermo Glenn, civil rights activist and political organizer from El Paso, Texas. In his interview he discusses his childhood, education, access to healthcare, political organizing, and activism in the Rio Grande Valley.
Date:
July 16, 2015
Creator:
Glenn, Guillermo & Enriquez, Sandra
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Antonio Marin, July 15, 2015
Interview with Antonio Marin, from El Paso, Texas. In his interview, he discusses his childhood, education, civil rights activism, community involvemen, and experiences with racism in south Texas.
Date:
July 15, 2015
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David & Marin, Antonio
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Carlos Marentes, July 15, 2015
Interview with Carlos Marentes, a farm labor organizer and farm worker advocate from the Juarez-El Paso border region. He founded the Border Agricultural Workers Project and participates in local, state, and national organizations dealing with inequality and climate change. In his interview, Marentes discusses his early life and activism.
Date:
July 15, 2015
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David & Marentes, Carlos
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Effie Perry, July 12, 2015
Interview with Effie Perry, an educator from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Perry discusses her family history, experiences with racial discrimination and segregation, education, access to healthcare, civil rights activism, integration, her teaching career, union activity, and community service.
Date:
July 15, 2015
Creator:
Perry, Effie & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Velma Spivey, July 15, 2015
Interview with Velma Spivey, a social worker from Bryan, Texas. In her interview, Spivey discusses her early life, living under segregation, her education, and career.
Date:
July 15, 2015
Creator:
Spivey, Velma & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History