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Oral History Interview with Ann Boney, July 20, 2015

Description: 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
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Boney, Ann; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
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Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Anna Gonzales, July 13, 2016

Description: Ms. Gonzales described her early childhood, learning about her culture from her grandmother, her journey to college, and her work as a social worker helping disadvantaged communities.
Date: July 13, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Danielle Grevious; Eladio Bobadilla & Anna Gonzales
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Oral History Interview with Antonio Jimenez, June 10, 2016

Description: Antonio Jimenez was born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. during the 1980s. He worked at Cactus Feeders then Swift, a meat packing plant in Cactus, Texas. While at Swift, Jimenez felt that the United Food & Commercial Workers was not representing the meat packing plant’s workers well. Thus, he and others, inspired by Trini Gamez and Coco Medina, launched a local union that eventually initiated a strike that brought better conditions. He eventually left Swift and the independent local union when … more
Date: June 10, 2016
Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Jimenez, Antonio
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Oral History Interview with Antonio Marin, July 15, 2015

Description: Interview with Antonio Marin, from El Paso, Texas. In his interview, he discusses his childhood, education, civil rights activism, community involvemen, and experiences with racism in south Texas.
Date: July 15, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David & Marin, Antonio
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Oral History Interview with Antonio Orendain, June 22, 2015

Description: Interview with Antonio Orendain, civil rights activist and founder of the Texas Farm Workers Union (TFWU), from McAllen, Texas. In the interview, Orendain discusses his childhood and family background, working with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and the National Farm Workers Association in California, migrant farm workers, founding the TFWU, and his long career as a labor activist.
Date: June 22, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 47 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Orendain, Antonio & Enriquez, Sandra
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Oral History Interview with Apollonia Ellis, June 15, 2016

Description: Ms. Ellis works for the hospital system in Lufkin and San Augustine. While attending SFA, she became involved in local politicss after noticing other active Democrats. She is the current chair of the Democratic Party in Nacogdoches County. She describes, in her interview, the current political climate in Nacogdoches, the people running for office, and their political platform.
Date: June 15, 2016
Duration: 24 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Ellis, Apollonia; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
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Oral History Interview with Armando Rodriguez, July 14, 2016

Description: Armando S. Rodriguez was born and raised in south Odessa, Texas. He attended Ector County High School, where he was senior class president. As the class president, Rodriguez led a school walkout to demand that advance academic classes be offered in the majority minority school. He later attended St. Mary’s University in San Antonio and is now an Ector County Commissioner.
Date: July 14, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Rodriguez, Armando
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Oral History Interview with Armando Trevino, July 7, 2015

Description: Interview with Armando Trevino, an attorney from Laredo, Texas. In his interview, Trevino discusses his family background, education, experiences with discrimination, political activism, the Crystal City walkout, community action, and the Chicano movement. Trevino also discusses providing legal aid in the Laredo area.
Date: July 7, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Trevino, Armando; Enriquez, Sandra; Robles, David & Krochmal, Max
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Oral History Interview with Arnold Gonzalez, June 19, 2016

Description: Arnold Gonzales is an educator, former state legislator, assistant state land commissioner, Corpus Christi city councilman, and Navy veteran. He graduated from Ray High School and earned a degree in art from Texas A&M Kingsville and taught art in middle school. He won a Mott Fellowship and earned a Masters' and PhD from the University of Michigan. In his interview, he talked quite a bit about his history as a politician in Corpus Christi.
Date: June 19, 2016
Duration: 2 hours 28 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Wall, James & Gonzales, Arnold
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Oral History Interview with Arnoldo De Leon, July 25, 2016

Description: Arnoldo De Leon was born in 1945 in Corpus Christi, Texas. His family lived in Chapman Ranch, an unincorporated community in Nueces County, south of Corpus Christi. In 1956, the De Leons and their family of ten children moved to Robstown. De Leon graduated from high school in 1962 after which he worked in the cotton fields of the area to save up for college, a job he had during summers as a child and teenager. He attended Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, but he could not afford to attend … more
Date: July 25, 2016
Duration: 53 minutes 01 second
Creator: De Leon, Arnoldo & Zapata, Joel
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Oral History Interview with Arturo Eureste, June 8, 2016

Description: Arturo Eureste was born in Waelder, TX in 1954. He comes from a family that has been politically active as his father was involved in groups like PASSO and LULAC while his brother was a member of more radical movements such as MAYO. He discusses how his family involvement encouraged him to become active in efforts like the UFW Boycott, and through MAYO and LRUP in Houston. Mr. Eureste also shares his work with the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AMMA) and his current invol… more
Date: June 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Eureste, Arturo
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Oral History Interview with Arturo Gonzales, July 12, 2016

Description: Arturo spoke about growing up in Crystal City. Him working the fields during his earlier years. He speaks a lot about local Crystal City politics. The initial push for representation envisaged by Los Cinco. Some about local Crystal City folks who were drafted for Vietnam. During this period--late 1960s, Arturo went to Wisconsin to work and live. He talked about the Crystal City walkouts--hearing about them in Wisconsin then moving back--and the demands that the students made. Finally, he talks … more
Date: July 12, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Gonzales, Arturo
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Oral History Interview with Arturo Leal, July 16, 2016

Description: Art Leal was born and raised in Odessa, Texas. Leal graduated from Odessa High School, after which he joined the U.S. Army and served in the first Gulf War. He graduated from Odessa College and the University of Texas at the Permian Basin. Leal ran for mayor of Odessa in 2008. Leal has been Ector County Democrat Precinct 406 Chair, is a member Mexican American Democrats Texas, has organized first Cesar Chavez Day March in Odessa, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Declamations in Odessa, Civic Part… more
Date: July 16, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Leal, Arturo
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Oral History Interview with Auerlio Montemayor on June 23, 2016

Description: Mr. Montemayor was adopted by the Montemayor family in Laredo; his family was heavily involved in community affairs and Mexican American activism. His adoptive mother, Alicia Dickerson Montemayor, was elected vice president general of LULAC. After attending college in St. Edward's University in Austin, Mr. Montemayor worked as a teacher in Del Rio, where he became involved in Chicano activism. He was a central player in the events that led to the march in Del Rio, and later taught at walkout s… more
Date: June 23, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio & Montemayor, Aurelio
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Oral History Interview with August Lastrappe, July 21, 2016

Description: 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 discussio… more
Date: July 21, 2016
Duration: 59 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Lastrappe, August; May, Meredith & Howard, Jasmin
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Oral History Interview with Barbara Brown, July 1, 2016.

Description: Ms. Brown was born and raised in Lufkin, Texas. She attended segregated schools in South Lufkin prior to moving to North Lufkin, where she attended and graduated from Dunbar High. She became a teacher at a private school and implemented African-American history into her curriculum. In her interview, Ms. Brown describes segregation in Lufkin, the violence and fear of white reprisals, the African-American community, and her career as a teacher.
Date: July 1, 2016
Duration: 39 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Brown, Barbara; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
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Oral History Interview with Barbara Cooper, July 17, 2015

Description: 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
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 38 seconds
Creator: Cooper, Barbara & Bynum, Katherine
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Oral History Interview with Barbara Lange, July 28, 2016

Description: Ms. Lange was born in Raywood, Texas. Her father took a job with Exxon in Crosby, so the family split their time between the two places. She then went to Xavier University, where she became involved in the Civil Rights Movement. After moving to Houston to go to Texas Southern, she became part of the sit-in movement, participating in sit-ins at multiple places, including the Shamrock Hotel in Houston. She continued her activism in her career as a social worker and a member of many organizations.… more
Date: July 28, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: May, Meredith & Lange, Barbara
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Oral History Interview with Becky Moeller, June 10, 2016

Description: Interview with Becky Moeller, from Corpus Christi, Texas. In her interview, Moeller gives an overview of the labor movement & her prominent role in it. She covers her early life, working and becoming an union activist, labor unions and segregation, women's rights and gender equality, and the local political environment of Corpus Christi.
Date: June 10, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 53 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Wall, James & Moeller, Becky
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Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Ben Reyes on July 14, 2016.

Description: 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 f… more
Date: July 14, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Reyes, Ben
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Oral History Interview with Benita and Evaristo Albarado, July 14, 2016

Description: Evaristo and Benita Albarado talked about the events surrounding the massacre at El Porvenir Ranch (Presidio County) in 1918, when a group of soldiers and Texas Rangers rounded up and shot Mexican American men who lived and worked at Porvenir. The father of Ms. Benita Albarado was a witness of the events, but did not talk about them until late in his life; his testimony motivated the Albarados to research and document the events surrounding the massacre. In addition to sharing the fruits of the… more
Date: July 14, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Albarado, Benita; Albarado, Evaristo; Sinta, Vincio & Arionus, Steve
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Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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