Oral History Interview with Juan Chavez, June 13, 2016
Description:
Juan Chávez was born in Colorado of ethnic Mexicans. As a young child, his father died and his family moved from a Colorado mining town to Muleshoe, Texas. In Muleshoe, Chávez remembers facing discrimination and African American children having to go to an African American school. He, as most other ethnic Mexican children in Muleshoe at the time, left school after seventh grade and began working. As a young man, he joined Chicanos Unidos Campesinos, a Muleshoe organization. He also helped lead …
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Date:
June 13, 2016
Duration:
1 hour 16 minutes 35 seconds
Creator:
Chavez, Juan; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
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TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library