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Oral History Interview with Garza, Leo, June 24, 2015
Interview with Leo Garza, a Chicano activist from Harlingen, Texas. In his interview, Garza discusses his early life, his activism, the Raza Unida Party, civil rights organizations, his work as a teacher, healthcare in South Texas, and the needs of the migrant community.
Date:
June 24, 2015
Creator:
Garza, Leo; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Joe Turner, June 24, 2015
Interview with Joe Turner from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Turner discusses his early life and moving to Texas, experiencing racial discrimination in Whitehouse, Texas, his work for the Carrier company in Tyler, and union organizing.
Date:
June 24, 2015
Creator:
Turner, Joe & Bynum, Katherine
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 Miguel de los Santos June 24, 2015
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.
Date:
June 24, 2015
Creator:
de los Santos, Miguel & Enriquez, Sandra
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Wilborn, June 25, 2015
Interview with John Wilborn, an educator from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Wilborn discusses his early life, growing up under Jim Crow segregation, community activism, attending college, military service, school integration, and becoming involved in local politics in Marshall.
Date:
June 23, 2015
Creator:
Wilborn, John; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Dulaney, Marvin & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Katherlene Onic, June 23, 2015
Interview with Katherlene Onic, a nurse from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Onic discusses her family background, education, experiences with discrimination, activism at Wiley College, labor unions, the NAACP, and race relations.
Date:
June 23, 2015
Creator:
Onic, Katherlene; Dulaney, Marvin & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ruben Rosales, June 23, 2015
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.
Date:
June 23, 2015
Creator:
Rosales, Ruben; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
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 Antonio Orendain, June 22, 2015
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.
Date:
June 22, 2015
Creator:
Orendain, Antonio & Enriquez, Sandra
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Flora Gossett, June 19, 2015
Interview with Flora Gossett, a retired domestic worker and church secretary, from Tyler, Texas. In the interview she describes her early life, experiences with Jim Crow discrimination in East Texas.
Date:
June 19, 2015
Creator:
Gossett, Flora; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
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 Maria Rodriguez, June 18, 2015
Interview with Maria Rodriguez, from Brownsville, Texas. In the interview, Rodriguez discusses her childhood, tenant farming, migrant labor, experiences with discrimination, and family life.
Date:
June 18, 2015
Creator:
Rodriguez, Maria; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Rey Avila, June 18, 2015
Interview with Rey Avila, founder of Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum in San Benito, Texas. Mr. Avila discusses his early life, education, his experiences as a young migrant worker, the history of Conjunto music in Texas, and the Chicano movement. Part of the interview takes place in the gallery of the museum.
Date:
June 18, 2015
Creator:
Avila, Rey; Gutierrez, Jose Angel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Zephaniah Timmins, June 18, 2015
Interview with Zephaniah Timmins, Harrison County Commissioner from Marshall, Texas. In his interview, Timmins discusses his family history, experiences with segregation and discrimination, civil rights activism, and his involvement in local politics.
Date:
June 18, 2015
Creator:
Timmins, Zephaniah & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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 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 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 Tony Gutierrez, June 16, 2015
Interview with Tony Gutierrez, an activist and former county commissioner from from Harlingen, Texas. In his interview, Gutierrez discusses his background, working life, his local political activism, and race relations in Harlingen.
Date:
June 16, 2015
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra & Gutierrez, Tony
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 Ernest Deckard, June 15, 2015
Interview with Ernest Deckard, labor organizer from Tyler, Texas. In his interview, Deckard discusses his childhood and education, his military service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, his work with labor unions, and his experiences with racial discrimination.
Date:
June 15, 2015
Creator:
Deckard, Ernest & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Betty Joyce Bivens, June 13, 2015
Interview with Betty Joyce Bivens, a retired educator from Fort Worth, Texas. In her interview, she describes her childhood experiences, growing up during the Jim Crow period, her education, her work at General Dynamics and in the public school system, community engagement, church leadership, and voter registration,
Date:
June 13, 2015
Creator:
Bivens, Betty Joyce & 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 Vivian Wells, June 13, 2015
Interview with Vivian Wells, a realtor from Fort Worth, Texas. In the interview, Wells discusses her early life, living under Jim Crow segregation, civil rights activism, her work and family, meeting Martin Luther King, Jr., and community organizing.
Date:
June 13, 2015
Creator:
Wells, Vivian; Robles, David & Krochmal, Max
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bennie Sherman, June 12, 2015
Interview with Bennie Sherman from Fort Worth, Texas. In the interview, Sherman discusses his early life, living under Jim Crow segregation, education in Fort Worth schools, and the Civil Rights Movement in Fort Worth.
Date:
June 12, 2015
Creator:
Sherman, Bennie & Moye, Todd
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History