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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 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 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 Jaime Garza, July 2, 2015
Interview with Jaime Garza, civil rights activist from Mercedes, Texas. In his interview, Garza discusses his early life, education, activism, the Raza Unida Party and El Colegio Jacinto Trevino, the Brown Berets, the Chicano movement in Texas, and riots in Pharr, Texas in 1971.
Date:
July 2, 2015
Creator:
Garza, Jaime; 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 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 Jesse Marvin Walker, July 8, 2015
Interview with Jesse Marvin Walker, a bail bondsman from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Walker discusses his early life, attending segregated schools, the civil rights movement, college activism, and working at NASA.
Date:
July 8, 2015
Creator:
Walker, Jesse Marvin; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
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 Rafael Torres, July 6, 2015
Interview with Rafael Torres, community leader from Laredo, Texas. In the interview, Torres discusses his family background, geography and politics in Laredo, experiences in school, participating in Teacher Corps, and activism in Crystal City.
Date:
July 6, 2015
Creator:
Torres, Rafael; Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David & Krochmal, Max
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 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 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 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 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 Ofelia de los Santos, June 26, 2015
Interview with Ofelia de los Santos, a retired attorney from Edinburg, Texas. In her interview she discusses her civil rights activism in South Texas, community organization Valley Interfaith, La Raza Unida party, and women in the Chicano movement.
Date:
June 26, 2015
Creator:
de los Santos, Ofelia; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
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 Barbara Cooper, July 17, 2015
Interview with Barbara Cooper, retired business owner from Bryan, Texas. Cooper discusses her family history, childhood, education, work and family life, and experiences with Jim Crow segregation in Bryan
Date:
July 17, 2015
Creator:
Cooper, Barbara & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ann Boney, July 20, 2015
Interview with Ann Boney, retired staff of Texas A&M University and president of the Brazos County NAACP from Bryan, Texas. Boney describes her early life and education, her employment around the state, including working at the Benz School of Floral Design at Texas A&M. Ms. Boney also discusses her experiences as president of her local chapter of the NAACP and current community issues addressed by the organization.
Date:
July 20, 2015
Creator:
Boney, Ann; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with RC Salinas, June 25, 2015
Interview with RC Salinas, an educator from Rio Grande City, Texas. In the interview, Salinas discusses his early life, education at Texas A&M, career, Chicano activism, religion, and the history of Rio Grande City.
Date:
June 25, 2015
Creator:
Salinas, RC; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type:
Video
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
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 Velma Spivey, July 15, 2015
Interview with Velma Spivey, a social worker from Bryan, Texas. In her interview, Spivey discusses her early life, living under segregation, her education, and career.
Date:
July 15, 2015
Creator:
Spivey, Velma & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
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 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