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Oral History Interview with Juanita Valdez-Cox, June 17, 2015

Description: 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
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Valdez-Cox, Juanita; Gutierrez, Jose Angel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
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Oral History Interview with Lorena Andrade, July 17, 2015

Description: Interview with Lorena Andrade, civil rights and labor activist from El Paso, Texas. Ms. Andrade was born in Los Angeles, California and attended the University of Minnesota, where she became involved with Chicano activism. In El Paso, she has been an advocate for labor and founded the organization La Mujer Obrera, The Working Woman, to support women affected by NAFTA.
Date: July 17, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 28 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Andrade, Lorena; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
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Oral History Interview with Michelle Barnes, June 17, 2016

Description: Michelle Barnes grew up in Third Ward, a historic African American neighborhood in Houston, TX. She talks about the social, cultural, and economic vibrancy of Third Ward and how the drowing of a child in Sunnyside sparked her involvement in the Committee for Better Race Relations and the fight for African American Studies. While at the University of Houston, she played an active role in creating social organizations for Black students, particularly the creation of a Delta Sigma Theta chapter. O… more
Date: June 17, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Barnes, Michelle; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
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Oral History Interview with Omowale Luthuli-Allen, June 17, 2016

Description: Omowale Lithuli-Allen was born in Amarillo in 1948, and grew up in Louisiana. He discusses growing up in the Jim Crow South and some of his early activism in high school. In 1966, he enrolled at the University of Houston, where he became involved in organizations such as COBER and Afro-Americans for Black Liberation (AABL). Following his activism at UH and Texas Southern University, he became involved in cross-racial coalitions, where he came together with Mexican American activists to address … more
Date: June 17, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Luthuli-Allen, Omowale
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Oral History Interview with Robert Person, July 17, 2015

Description: 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
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Person, Robert & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
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Oral History Interview with Robin Green, June 17, 2016

Description: Robin Green was born and Raised in Clarendon, Texas. He attended McMurry University in Abilene, Texas. Afterward, he attended law school at Texas Tech University. He worked shortly as a prosecutor in Amarillo and later had a long career in Amarillo as a civil rights lawyer. He now practices law in Lubbock, Texas.
Date: June 17, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Green, Robin
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Oral History Interview with Sydney Eloyce Green, June 17, 2015

Description: 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
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Green, Sydney Eloyce & Bynum, Katherine
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Texas A&M at TCU football game

Description: This film captures a football game between the Texas A&M University Aggies and the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs. (TCU players are wearing the darker jerseys.) The Southwest Conference match-up was played on October 17, 1959, at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth. After a scoreless first quarter, the Horned Frogs take the lead in the second, ultimately winning 39-6. As the Southwest Conference champions, TCU went on to play the Clemson Tigers in the inaugural Bluebonnet Bowl, losing… more
Date: October 17, 1959
Duration: 52 minutes 41 seconds
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