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Oral History Interview with Eddie Canales, June 30, 2015
Interview with Eddie Canales, is a civil rights activist and former union organizer from Falfurrias, Texas. He is the founder of the South Texas Human Rights Center. In his interview, Canales discusses his childhood, education, and activism in Texas.
Date:
June 3, 2015
Creator:
Canales, Eddie; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wilson, Mrs. Charles, June 6, 2015
Interview with Mrs. Charles Wilson, president of the Harrison County NAACP from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Mrs. Wilson discusses her family background, early education, living in a segregated neighborhood, and her education. She also talks about the effects of school integration, racial violence, and resistance to civil rights. Wilson also discusses her family life and work as a teacher. Finally she discusses the current state of racial equality in Marshall.
Date:
June 6, 2015
Creator:
Wilson, Mrs. Charles & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dalila Dolenz, June 10 2015
Interview with Dalila Dolenz, a nurse and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas. In the interview, she discusses her work, activism and interaction with Cesar Chavez
Date:
June 10, 2015
Creator:
Dolenz, Dalila; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frances Rizo, June 10, 2015
Interview with Frances Rizo, a community activist and civic volunteer from Dallas, Texas. In her interview, Rizo discusses her family background, experiencing discrimination in school, civic engagement, politics, and working in broadcasting.
Date:
June 10, 2015
Creator:
Bynum, Katherine & Rizo, Frances
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ida Bridgewater, June 10, 2010
Ida Bridgewater discusses growing up in the Stop Six Neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, where her parents, Garfield and Dorothy Thompson were civil rights activists. Her father graduated from I.M. Terrell High School and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was elected state representative of District 95 and held office for 10 years until his retirement.
Date:
June 10, 2015
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David; Krochmal, Max & Bridgewater, Ida
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pauline Gasca-Valenciano, June 10, 2015
Interview with Pauline Gasca Valenciano, a civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas. She became involved in politics in the early 1960s, when she volunteered for Viva Kennedy. She later worked with the Democratic party, LULAC, and the American GI Forum. She was an advocate for migrant farm workers and honored by the National Association of Human Rights for her work in civil rights.
Date:
June 10, 2015
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David; Krochmal, Max & Gasca-Valenciano, Pauline
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 L. Clifford Davis, June 11, 2015
Interview with L. Clifford Davis, an attorney and community leader from Fort Worth, Texas. In this interview, Davis discusses his early life, education, law practice and civil rights activism in Texas and Arkansas.
Date:
June 11, 2015
Creator:
Davis, L. Clifford; Enriquez, Sandra; Moye, Todd & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Gonzales, June 11, 2015
Interview with Richard Gonzales, a journalist from Arlington, Texas. In his interview, Gonzales discusses his early life, his education, student activism, founding the Association of Mexican American Students at UT Arlington, and his political activism and advocacy for Mexican-Americans.
Date:
June 11, 2015
Creator:
Gonzales, Richard; Enriquez, Sandra; Krochmal, Max & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Trinidad "Trini" Garza, June 10, 2015
Interview with Trinidad "Trini" Garza, a civic leader and businessman from Dallas, Texas. In the interview, Garza discusses his early life, education, migrant work, military service, studying engineering at Texas A&M, his community service and activism in Dallas, and his work on the school board.
Date:
June 11, 2015
Creator:
Garza, Trinidad & Bynum, Katherine
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
Oral History Interview with Estrus Tucker, June 12, 2015
Interview with Estrus Tucker, a social worker from Fort Worth, Texas. In his interview, Tucker discusses his background, residential segregation, the Como neighborhood, and community activism in Fort Worth.
Date:
June 12, 2015
Creator:
Tucker, Estrus & Moye, Todd
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 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 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 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 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 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