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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 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 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 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 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 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 Trini Gamez, June 4, 2016
Trini Gamez was born and raised in South Texas, and her father died when she was a child. She married at eighteen and moved to Hereford, Texas with her husband as migrant laborer. She later joined the local PTA and joined the school system as a teachers aid where she began to see discrimination. Thus began her journey to register voters, run for office herself, work for legal aid groups, and promote labor rights.
Date:
June 4, 2016
Creator:
Gamez, Trini & Zapata, Joel
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Socorro Medina on June 5, 2016
Socorro "Coco" Medina grew up in Amarillo and attending university in Denver, where she joined the Chicano Movement. She returned to Amarillo and began to push for social justice in the Panhandle through the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and other mainstream organizations. She also launched the first Spanish language radio station in the city alongside her husband and is currently helping preserve the history of the city's Mexican American population.
Date:
June 5, 2016
Creator:
Zapata, Joel & Medina, Socorro
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dallas and Carol Pierre, June 6, 2016
Dr. Pierre was born in Louisiana and moved to Port Arthur at a young age. He later moved to Lufkin, because the area lacked an African-American dentist. His wife Carol Pierre, who was born and raised in San Antonio, became a teacher in the segregated school system. Dr. Pierre quickly became active, serving on the school board as integration occurred and participating in the NAACP. He continues to operate his dentistry business in Lufkin in 2016. Dr. Pierre discusses his early life in Louisiana and Port Arthur and his time in dental school. He and his wife describe the move to Lufkin, integration, work with the NAACP, and what they saw as the complacency of African Americans in Lufkin.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Dulaney, W. Marvin; May, Meredith; Howard, Jasmin; Pierre, Carol & Pierre, Dallas
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gloria Rubac on June 6, 2016.
Gloria Rubac was born in Oklahoma, TX. in 1946. After witnessing racial discrimination in Oklahoma throughout her youth, Rubac traveled to Houston in 1968 to teach in the Northforest School District. She became involved in the John Brown Revolutionary League, a radical white youth organization that was a part of a Rainbow Coalition with the People's Party II. Wanting to become more active in supporting Brown and Black organizations, Rubac joined the Huelga School movement as a teacher and protestor. She talks about her succeeding involvement in supporting the Chicana/o Moratorium, the Mexican American Youth Organization, the People's Party II, the Worker's World, and the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, which she has dedicated her life to. Rubac also discusses inter-racial solidarity as well as discrimination in Houston, particularly police brutality as it relates to the assassination of Carl Hampton, the Jose Campos Torres incident, and the Moody Park Rebellion.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Rubac, Gloria
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gonzalo Barrientos, June 6, 2016
Gonzalo Barrientos discusses his life growing up in Bastrop, Texas and later serving as a Democratic State Senator representing the 14th District from 1985-2007. He was also a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Austin from 1975-1985.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Arionus, Steve & Barrientos, Gonzalo
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Guessipina Bonner, June 6, 2016
Dr. Bonner was born and raised in Fairfield, Texas. Her family was connected through bloodlines to a prominent white family, which helped shelter them from some of the harshness of segregation. Dr. Bonner than went to college in New Orleans, where she became active in civil rights. She moved all over the country, including California, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Washington DC. She returned to the area to take care of her parents. She revived the local NAACP and currently serves as president. She was also elected to the city council. Dr. Bonner discusses her early life in Fairfield, her educational background, activism across the nation, reviving Lufkin's NAACP, and her election to city council.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Bonner, Guessipina; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with I.D. Henderson, June 10, 2016
I.D. Henderson, Jr. was the first Black County Commissioner of Angelina County, Texas. He served in that position from the early 1980s until the early 2000s. He was very involved in Lufkin politics and helped to improve the infrastructure of the Black Lufkin community. Mr. Henderson is also a war veteran who served in Vietnam and Korea. Mr. Henderson discussed the segregation and discrimination he witnessed from his birth in the Lufkin area in the late 1920s, his time in the military and his return to Lufkin in the 1970s. Mr. Henderson discussed receiving death threats before and after he won his county commissioner office. Also Mr. Henderson discussed his involvement in many other organizations.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Howard, Jasmin & Henderson, I.D.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with I.D. Henderson, June 13, 2016
I.D. Henderson, Jr. was the first Black County Commissioner of Angelina County, Texas. He served in that position from the early 1980s until the early 2000s. He was very involved in Lufkin politics and helped to improve the infrastructure of the Black Lufkin community. Mr. Henderson is also a war veteran who served in Vietnam and Korea. Mr. Henderson discussed the segregation and discrimination he witnessed from his birth in the Lufkin area in the late 1920s, his time in the military and his return to Lufkin in the 1970s. Mr. Henderson discussed receiving death threats before and after he won his county commissioner office. Also Mr. Henderson discussed his involvement in many other organizations.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Howard, Jasmin & Henderson, I.D.
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John "Bunchy" Crear, June 6, 2016
John "Bunchy" Crear was born in 1952. He grew up in Pleasantville, a predominately African American neighborhood in Houston, TX. After spending a few years in Los Angeles, California, he returned to Houston and joined the People's Party II. He discusses People's Party II's community programing and the Dowling Shootout, the Rainbow Coalition, and his later involvement in the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Crear also talks about the differences in racial discrimination in California versus Texas and his efforts to honor the life of Carl Hampton as well as the legacy of the Black Panther Party.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Crear, John
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Pete and Jessie Mendez, June 6, 2016
Pedro "Pete" Mendez was born in South Texas and arrived in the Texas Panhandle through migrant labor with his parents in the 1930s. His father died in Clarendon, TX and he was raised between Amarillo and Tucumcari, NM. He joined the Marines during WWII and served in Northern China. Upon returning, he began a small construction business and helped start the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He spoke on the opportunities he and other minority business owners had through government grants and contracts. Jessie Mendez grew up in Amarillo. She recounts segregated schools and business in Amarillo during her childhood. She especially recounts her mother helping end segregation for Mexican Americans in one theater. Jessie talked about not being able to gain a job as a secretary because of her Mexican ethnicity, and thus giving up in the prospect of being employed and settling for marriage. She also recounts pushing her husband to work for civil rights, but she herself followed tradition and stayed home to raise her children.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel; Mendez, Pete & Mendez, Jessie
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Willie Loa, June 6, 2016
Overview of desegregation of West Oso schools, an area of Corpus Christi.
Date:
June 6, 2016
Creator:
Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Moye, Todd; Wall, James & Loa, Willie
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bobby Hollis, June 7, 2016
Hollis discussed the history of labor unions in the Golden Triangle, the challenges of growing up working-class, and the ongoing problems facing organized labor.
Date:
June 7, 2016
Creator:
Krochmal, Max; Bobadilla, Eladio & Hollis, Bobby
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History