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Oral History Interview with Cedrick Granberry, June 24, 2015
Interview with Cedrick Granberry, a barber and business owner from Tyler, Texas. In his interview, Granberry discusses his early life, his education at Tyler public schools, his experiences with racial discrimination and his involvement with the NAACP.
Date:
June 24, 2015
Creator:
Granberry, Cedirck; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Dulaney, W. Marvin & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 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 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 Bessie and Lawrence Hicks, July 14, 2015
Interview with Lawrence and Bessie Hicks of Bryan, Texas. In their interview, the Hicks describe their experiences with racial discrimination and civil rights activism.
Date:
July 14, 2015
Creator:
Hicks, Lawrence; Lawrence, Bessie & 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 A.C. Jaime, July 2, 2015
Interview with A.C. Jaime, an accountant from McAllen, Texas. Jaime was the first Mexican-American mayor of Pharr, Texas. In his interview, Jaime discusses his early life, education, political and professional career, the riots in Pharr, and race relations in the Rio Grande Valley
Date:
July 2, 2015
Creator:
Jaime, A. C.; 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 Rubye Jones and Julia Williams, June 30, 2015
Interview with Rubye Jones and Julia Williams, from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Jones and Williams discuss their family backgrounds, higher education at Bishop and Wiley Colleges, experiences with racial discrimination, and their involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Jones's uncle Romeo Williams, was a prominent African-American civil rights attorney in Marshall who was killed in an accident in 1960.
Date:
June 30, 2015
Creator:
Jones, Rubye; Williams, Julia; Bynum, Katherine & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Oscar Martinez, July 7, 2015
Interview with Oscar Martinez, a retired Justice of the Peace from Laredo, Texas. Martinez discusses his childhood and family background, education, experiences with discrimination, service in the U.S. Air Force, and his activism and membership in LULAC.
Date:
July 7, 2015
Creator:
Martinez, Oscar; Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David & Krochmal, Max
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Ricardo Medrano, June 13, 2015
Interview with Ricardo Medrano, a former city councilman from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, Medrano discusses his family background and childhood, political activism, labor activism, the Chicano movement, and his time as an elected leader in Dallas.
Date:
June 13, 2015
Creator:
Medrano, Ricardo; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Medrano, June 10, 2015
Interview with Robert Medrano, businessman and elected official from Dallas, Texas. Medrano is the son of Francisco "Pancho" Medrano and brother of Ricardo Medrano, also local politicians. In his interview, Medrano discusses his his upbringing in the "Little Mexico" section of Dallas, his family's political activities, and Chicano activism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Date:
June 10, 2015
Creator:
Medrano, Robert & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Richard Menchaca, June 12, 2015
Interview with Richard Menchaca, an educator, author and businessman from Dallas, Texas. In his interview, Menchaca discusses his upbringing in a segregated San Antonio, experiences as a student athlete, working as a teacher in Dallas, and his Chicano activism, including being president of LULAC.
Date:
June 12, 2015
Creator:
Menchaca, Richard & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bettye Mitchell, July 1, 2015
Interview with Bettye Mitchell a community leader from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Mitchell discusses her family background, going to segregated and integrated schools, experiences with racism, civil rights activism, her church community, and her political activism.
Date:
July 1, 2015
Creator:
Mitchell, Bettye & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Vicente Molina, July 8, 2015
Interview with Vicente Molina, an educator from Laredo, Texas. In the interview, Molina discusses his childhood, military service, education, Chicano activism, Raza Unida Party, and his involvement with community organizations.
Date:
July 8, 2015
Creator:
Molina, Vicente; Robles, David; Krochmal, Max & Enriquez, Sandra
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 Edward D. Moore, June 15, 2015
Interview with Edward D. Moore, city councilman from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Moore discusses his family background, childhood, education, desegregation, his work for Kelly-Springfield Tire, labor unions, community activism, and city politics.
Date:
June 15, 2015
Creator:
Moore, Edward D. & 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
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 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 Abel Ochoa, July 1, 2015
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.
Date:
July 1, 2015
Creator:
Ochoa, Abel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with David Ojeda, July 9, 2015
Interview with David Ojeda, a civil rights activist from Carrizo Springs, Texas. In the interview, Ojeda discusses his childhood, experiences with segregation, becoming involved with civil rights organizations, the Chicano Movement, and Raza Unida.
Date:
July 9, 2015
Creator:
Ojeda, David; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History