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[News Clip: Houston Murders] captions transcript

[News Clip: Houston Murders]

Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story by reporter Jack Cato about the murder of four employees of the Malibu Grand Prix in southwest Houston. The footage includes covered bodies being loaded into vehicles, detectives and police interviewing unidentified people, forensic investigators on the scene, interiors of the arcade, and a statement by an unidentified police officer about the stabbing of the victims and the possible motive of robbery.
Date: July 1, 1983
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston] captions transcript

[Hill Family Films, No. 6 - Vacation in Galveston]

This home movie documents the Roy E. Hill family vacationing in Galveston and at Lake Texoma in the summer of 1956. The road trip begins with title cards that read "R.E. Hill Presents," "1956," "Filmed and Edited by Roy E. Hill," and "Helen, Art, and Bonita." This first segment begins with footage shot from their moving car as they pass through Houston and Texas City on their way to Galveston. Footage includes the Texas Heroes Monument, exteriors of homes, boats on the water, businesses including the Omar Khayyam Club (04:28), and docked tourists boats the "Yacht Garmencita" and "Miss Texas" (04:29). The family visits Fort Crockett (04:44), plays on the beach and in the ocean, observes boats on the water, and swims at the hotel pool. This segment concludes with the title card "The End" (11:17). In the next segment, there is a shot of the Dave Hicks Company, Inc., a woman picking up a child at the Young Texan School (12:06), a small airplane being worked on in a driveway (12:06-12:58), children riding bicycles (12:58-13:30) and family visiting the zoo (13:30-15:16). The film concludes with a family trip to Denison Dam and Lake Texoma with the family driving to …
Date: July 1956
Creator: Hill, Roy E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alphonso Saenz, July 22, 2015 captions transcript

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
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
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Summit Wrap] captions transcript

[News Clip: Summit Wrap]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 11, 1990, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Texas Roundup] captions transcript

[News Clip: Texas Roundup]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 29, 1992, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Women death penalty] captions transcript

[News Clip: Women death penalty]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. Story aired at 5pm.
Date: July 28, 1995, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: TX Roundup] captions transcript

[News Clip: TX Roundup]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: July 8, 1993, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Johnny Mata, July 19, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Johnny Mata, July 19, 2016

Mr. Mata grew up in Wharton and Houston and, although most of his knowledge was based on his activism in Houston, he was part of cases on the outskirts as a board member of LULAC, an EEOC officer, and while taking part of organizational leadership. He also had some information on cases like Hernandez v. Texas, police-civil coalitions, Black-Brown coalitions, and activism in Houston.
Date: July 19, 2016
Creator: Grevious, Danielle & Mata, Johnny
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Johnella Franklin, July 18, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Johnella Franklin, July 18, 2016

Ms. Franklin was raised in Conroe in the 1960s to parents who were both teachers at the local All-Black school, Booker T. Washington High. Franklin discussed how integration occurred in Conroe, including the freedom of choice phase and the process of the forced integration phase. Franklin overheard her parents discussing their sentiments about integration. Franklin's parents decided to not send their daughter to the formerly all-white schools in Conroe during freedom of choice but a few Black parents did send their children to integrated schools during that time. Notable historian Annette Gordon-Reed is said to be one of the first Black students in Conroe to attend integrated schools. Franklin discussed her experiences with integration and her time attending college at Rice University. Franklin attended Rice partially because her father heard that it had integrated fairly recently. Franklin worked in technology (programming, etc.) throughout her career and experienced some discrimination in the workplace at companies in Houston.
Date: July 18, 2016
Creator: Franklin, Johnella & Howard, Jasmin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Graciela Guzman Saenz, July 8, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Graciela Guzman Saenz, July 8, 2016

Described her childhood in a working class Mexican American family, the obstacles she had to overcome to become lawyer, and her history working on both sides of the criminal justice system.
Date: July 8, 2016
Creator: Saenz, Graciela Guzman; Grevious, Danielle & Bobadilla, Eladio
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Leatha Moore, July 15, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Leatha Moore, July 15, 2016

Ms. Moore was raised in Houston, Texas. Her family is from Conroe, and she spent time growing up visiting relatives in Conroe, including her aunt Lucille Bradley. In her interview, Ms. Moore describes her family's history, the career and life of Ms. Bradley in Conroe's schools, and her observations on how Conroe has changed over time.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmin; May, Meredith & Moore, Leatha
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with August Lastrappe, July 21, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with August Lastrappe, July 21, 2016

Mr. Lastrappe spent his formative years in Conroe, Texas. He went to school at Booker T. Washington. Upon graduating, he went to California, where he witnessed the Watts Riot. Following that, he went to Chicago and then Seattle, where he worked primarily in juvenile detention facilities, then retired and returned to Texas. Mr. Lastrappe's interview describes segregation in Conroe, black-owned businesses, discrimination in Chicago, comparisons between Texas, Chicago, and Seattle, and a discussion of Mr. Lastrappe's publication of poetry.
Date: July 21, 2016
Creator: Lastrappe, August; May, Meredith & Howard, Jasmin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Maria Jordan, July 31, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Maria Jordan, July 31, 2016

Mrs. Jordan has worked as a community social worker mainly servicing the Hispanic/Latino population in mainly Houston and Montgomery County. Jordan has worked to ensure that the Hispanic/Latino population has access to resources. Jordan consistently collaborates with other organizations that fosters multiracial collaborations. Jordan discussed growing up in Houston and Aldine. Jordan's family left the Barrio in Houston and moved to the more rural Aldine when she was three. Jordan discussed the different cultural practices she learned by having Cuban and Mexican parents, visiting the Barrio and living in a predominantly white and rural area. Jordan witnessed violence between residents of the Barrio and law enforcement. Jordan also discussed her experience with school integration. Jordan describes the changes in racial demographics of Montgomery County and efforts to secure political representation through creating and sustaining a multiracial coalition.
Date: July 31, 2016
Creator: Jordan, Maria; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Daler Wade, July 25, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Daler Wade, July 25, 2016

Mrs. Wade attended an all-Black school in Houston and during freedom of choice the Black students collectively decided not to integrate because white school officials had sought to only allow the top Black students to integrate. Wade benefited from the land ownership of her family. By owning land, Wade's mother was able to take care of her two children following the early death of her husband. Wade attributed her father's early death to an injury that occurred during his military service. Wade also attributed her brother contracting polio and her mother's subsequent difficulty obtaining care for her brother to discrimination. Wade's mother initially worked in menial jobs despite having a degree because she could not be hired as an secretary. Wade's mother ultimately started in the 1960s and sustained her own in-home business for decades. Wade described her schooling experiences at Texas Woman's University and Texas Christian University. Wade received some negative feedback from her teacher's for deciding to not attend a historically Black college or university. Wade decided to attend a predominantly white university because she was curious about the level of education white people were receiving. Wade began a career in corporate America shortly after graduating from TCU …
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmine & Wade, Daler
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Claudette] captions transcript

[News Clip: Claudette]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 26, 1979, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Houston flood] captions transcript

[News Clip: Houston flood]

B-roll ideo footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 27, 1979, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Luciano Salinas, July 14, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Luciano Salinas, July 14, 2016

Luciano "Lucky" Salinas was born in 1950 in Galveston. During the segregation era of the island, Salinas the attended Mexican American Goliad Elementary School. By the time he was in tenth grade, he would attended the integrated Ball High School. Due to a lack of college funding, Salinas opted to enlist in the Vietnam War. After serving in the war, he would attend Laredo Community College briefly before enrolling at the University of Houston. While at UH, Salinas became involved in student activism and took the first classes offered by the Center for Mexican American Studies. He talks about his involvement in the UH Mexican American Youth Organization, the various Mexican American student groups on campus, what he learned in the CMAS courses and how they shaped his worldview, his involvement in the Association for the Mexican American Advancement, and how he has dedicated his life to education endeavors.
Date: July 14, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Salinas, Luciano
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ray Wilson on July 13, 2016. captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Ray Wilson on July 13, 2016.

Ray Wilson was born in Alabama in 1939 and moved to Chicago at the age of 7. When he was in 10th grade, his mom remarried and his family moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he came of age and joined several local struggles for civil rights including a sit in. Wilson also joined the military in the 1960s, where he experienced integrated ranks within the Army. In the 1970s, he moved to Baytown where he began working for ExxonMobile. Upon his arrival, he quickly noticed racism and segregation in Baytown. Shortly thereafter, Wilson became involved in the community through different efforts including the Political Action Committee, re-establishing a local chapter of the NAACP, and Gang Activity prevention work.
Date: July 13, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Wilson, Ray
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cody Wheeler, July 25, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Cody Wheeler, July 25, 2016

Cody Wheeler was born in Dalhart, Texas in 1985. He moved to Pasadena with his family in 1991. Wheeler developed a political consciousness as a young kid due to his father's union involvement. He attended schools in the Pasadena Independent School District and graduated from Deer Park High School. In 2003, he joined the Marines and did tours in Iraq. Upon his return from the war, he enrolled at the University of Houston. The persistent stark differences between North and South Pasadena pushed him to successfully run for city council member in 2013. During his campaign, he made an attempt to educate his constituents and get them out to vote. As a member of city council, he has been a witness to the voting rights violations resulting from the redistricting of Pasadena (which he describes in detail). Wheeler also described his unsuccessful run for state representative for district 144 in 2016.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Wheeler, Cody
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eva Benevides, July 20, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Eva Benevides, July 20, 2016

Eva Benavides was born in 1952 in Baytown. She attended Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary, the Baytown Mexican School, and witnessed segregation in her youth. She experienced a culture shock when she attended the integrated Baytown Junior High. Inspired by her mother's and father's dedication to helping others, Benavides served as a Baytown City Councilwoman and became involved in the West Baytown Civic Association. The Luis Alfonso Torres police brutality case galvanized her and others to forge a cross-racial coalition (United Concerned Citizens of Baytown) to hold the police department accountable. Benavides talks about how Mexican Americans were situated in a segregated Baytown, the importance of Fiesta Patrias, her involvement in the PTO, her determination to become a city councilwoman and her experiences as an Mexican American female representative for a single member district, how she bodly held the Baytown Police Department accountable for the Luis Alfonso Torres case when other Mexican American representative refused to speak out, and cross-racial efforts to address police brutality. She also discusses gentrification and how her community lacks businesses and grocery stores, how she taught citizenship classes for many years, the role of Exxon in Baytown, and how city council representatives have to address race …
Date: July 20, 2016
Creator: Benavides, Eva; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Daniel Bustamante, July 1, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Daniel Bustamante, July 1, 2016

Daniel Bustamante was born in Corpus Christi in 1948 and was raised in both Mathis and Corpus Christi. He grew up in a farm worker family and attended the "Mexican" School in Mathis. His activist consciousness began in 1965, when he left to California to work in the fields--the discrimination he faced changed him. In addition, he became a conscious objector during the Vietnam War. He attended Del Mar College from 1967-1969, where he became involved in the Anti-War Movement, the Young Democrats, and supported the UFW Grape Boycott. He moved to Houston in 1969 to attend the University of Houston. At UH, he became involved in MAYO efforts. In 1975, he hosted a party that ended in an incident of police brutality. Bustamante, along with 2 other activists (Eddie Canales and Elliot ?) sued HPD in Federal Court and won in 1979. In 1977-1978, in the aftermath of the Joe Campos Torres death and the Moody Park Rebellion, Bustamante led several marches and pickets to demonstrate against police brutality in Houston. In the late 1970s, he worked at Casa de Amigos in the Northside, an institution geared to address health care isses and drug abuse in the community. In …
Date: July 1, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Bustamante, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lupe Casares, July 7, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Lupe Casares, July 7, 2016

Guadalupe "Lupe" Casares was born in 1950 in Santa Rosa, Texas, which is located in the Rio Grande Valley. Growing-up as a migrant farmworker, he traveled throughout the United States for much of his youth. After Casaras' father passed away from Tuberculosis in 1965, his family would settle in the midwest and he would attend school for first time. He would eventually work for the University of Wisconsin to recruit Mexican American students from Mercedes, Texas. The Black Power Movement along with his families' own resistance to discrimination would propell him to become involved in the Texas Farm Workers Movement, the Mexican American Youth Organization, and the founding of the first Chicana/o college--Colegio Jacinto Treviño in Mercedes, Texas. Casares talks about segregation as it relates to the Mexican American community, the ideological differences in the farmworkers struggle, and how Colegio Jacinto Treviño played an influential role in liberating the minds of Chicanas/os. He also discusses the many struggles embedded in the broader fight for Chicana/o freedom--tackling police brutality, establishing educational self-determination, obtaining labor rights, pressuring for welfare rights, and utllizing teatro to raise awareness. Lastly, Casares talks about his dedication to filmmaking.
Date: July 7, 2016
Creator: Casares, Lupe; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ben Reyes on July 14, 2016. captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Ben Reyes on July 14, 2016.

Ben Reyes was born in Burton, Texas in 1947. His family moved to Denver Harbor in Houston. The Reyes family worked as local migrant workers, picking up different crops in the surrounding areas of Houston. He faced discrimination in the schools he attended, and was even placed in Special Education classes since he only spoke Spanish. Reyes' mother was active in the community, and thus encouraged his activism as he began his community work at the age of eleven, registering people to vote. Reyes fought in the Vietnam War, and upon his return to Houston, he became involved in veteran groups that were demanding equality.He then met Lionel Castillo, who groomed him to become a politician and became a mentor. In 1972, after the creation of Single-Member districts, Reyes ran for State Representative of District 87. He and Mickey Leland employed cross-racial campaign tactics in order to win the support of African-Americans in his district. Reyes won the election. As a State Representative, he helped with the creation of single-member districts in Texas to ensure the representation of minorities in politics. In 1979, he ran for Houston City Council and became the first Mexican-American to hold a seat in council. …
Date: July 14, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Reyes, Ben
System: The Portal to Texas History