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Oral History Interview with Ernest Deckard, June 15, 2015

Description: Interview with Ernest Deckard, labor organizer from Tyler, Texas. In his interview, Deckard discusses his childhood and education, his military service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, his work with labor unions, and his experiences with racial discrimination.
Date: June 15, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 49 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Deckard, Ernest & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with L. Clifford Davis, June 11, 2015

Description: Interview with L. Clifford Davis, an attorney and community leader from Fort Worth, Texas. In this interview, Davis discusses his early life, education, law practice and civil rights activism in Texas and Arkansas.
Date: June 11, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Davis, L. Clifford; Enriquez, Sandra; Moye, Todd & Robles, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with A.C. Jaime, July 2, 2015

Description: Interview with A.C. Jaime, an accountant from McAllen, Texas. Jaime was the first Mexican-American mayor of Pharr, Texas. In his interview, Jaime discusses his early life, education, political and professional career, the riots in Pharr, and race relations in the Rio Grande Valley
Date: July 2, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Jaime, A. C.; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Charlotte Stokes, June 24, 2016

Description: Mrs. Stokes was born and raised in Nacogdoches. She is the daughter of Arthur Weaver, the founder of the NAACP in Nacogdoches. She then became a teacher in Washington DC and St. Louis. She returned to Nacogdoches in the late 1970s, where she worked at Head Start. Retired now, she is active in civic organizations, particularly the annual Juneteenth celebration. In her interview, Mrs. Stokes describes her childhood in Nacogdoches, the difficulties of segregation, her father's activism, and the co… more
Date: June 24, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Howard, Jasmine; May, Meredith & Stokes, Charlotte
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Danny Lee, July 13, 2016

Description: Mr. Lee was born and raised in Cleveland, Texas. He attended segregated schools until integration when he was in fifth grade. Following graduation, he attended Lamar University and began a career with the utility company and as a member of first the school board and, currently, the city council. In his interview, Mr. Lee described segregation in Cleveland, instances of discrimination, integration of schools, integration of sports, Little League, and the Boy Scouts, racial tensions in Beaumont a… more
Date: July 13, 2016
Duration: 2 hours 13 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: May, Meredith; Howard, Jasmin & Lee, Danny
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Gloria McGuire, July 28, 2016

Description: Gloria McGuire was born and raised in Marathon, a town in Brewster Co., Texas (north of Alpine). She recalled her hometown as a highly segregated community, with a lost of hostility against people of Mexican descent. Her father, an immigrant from Mexico, founded a Mutualist association in Marathon and was involved in several initiatives to protect the community from the worst of discrimination. She recounted that many young Mexican Americans abandoned their studies due to neglect/mistreatment, … more
Date: July 28, 2016
Duration: 48 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio; Arionus, Steve & McGuire, Gloria
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Andrew Hernandez, June 8, 2016

Description: Mr. Hernandez was raised in San Antonio, spending most of his formative years in the east side. While young, he became involved in local politics, working for several high profile campaigns, including State Senator Joe Bernal. He studied political science in Trinity University; at a very young age, he was offered the opportunity to work as the first Research Director for SVREP. He collected data and worked with MALDEF and SVREP attorneys to combat voting discrimination in Texas. In 1980, he ran… more
Date: June 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio & Hernandez, Andrew
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Rubye Jones and Julia Williams, June 30, 2015

Description: Interview with Rubye Jones and Julia Williams, from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Jones and Williams discuss their family backgrounds, higher education at Bishop and Wiley Colleges, experiences with racial discrimination, and their involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Jones's uncle Romeo Williams, was a prominent African-American civil rights attorney in Marshall who was killed in an accident in 1960.
Date: June 30, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Jones, Rubye; Williams, Julia; Bynum, Katherine & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Alicia Chacon, July 25, 2016

Description: 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
Duration: 44 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: Chacon, Alicia; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Bennie Sherman, June 12, 2015

Description: Interview with Bennie Sherman from Fort Worth, Texas. In the interview, Sherman discusses his early life, living under Jim Crow segregation, education in Fort Worth schools, and the Civil Rights Movement in Fort Worth.
Date: June 12, 2015
Duration: 57 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Sherman, Bennie & Moye, Todd
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Fernando Chacon, July 20, 2015

Description: Interview with Fernando Chacon, lawyer and activist from El Paso, Texas. In the interview Chacon discusses his early life and education, his advocacy for migrant workers, his activism in the Chicano movement, and El Paso politics.
Date: July 20, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 42 seconds
Creator: Chacon, Fernando; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Clarice Watkins, June 25, 2015

Description: Interview with Clarice Watkins, a Justice of the Peace from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Watkins discusses her background, education, racial violence, community activism, integration, experiences with discrimination, and her radio career.
Date: June 25, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Watkins, Clarice & Bynum, Katherine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with David Ojeda, July 9, 2015

Description: Interview with David Ojeda, a civil rights activist from Carrizo Springs, Texas. In the interview, Ojeda discusses his childhood, experiences with segregation, becoming involved with civil rights organizations, the Chicano Movement, and Raza Unida.
Date: July 9, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Ojeda, David; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with James E. Johnson, July 21, 2015

Description: 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
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Johnson, James E. & Bynum, Katherine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Garza, Leo, June 24, 2015

Description: Interview with Leo Garza, a Chicano activist from Harlingen, Texas. In his interview, Garza discusses his early life, his activism, the Raza Unida Party, civil rights organizations, his work as a teacher, healthcare in South Texas, and the needs of the migrant community.
Date: June 24, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Garza, Leo; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Joe Turner, June 24, 2015

Description: Interview with Joe Turner from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Turner discusses his early life and moving to Texas, experiencing racial discrimination in Whitehouse, Texas, his work for the Carrier company in Tyler, and union organizing.
Date: June 24, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Turner, Joe & Bynum, Katherine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Minnie Mosley Gram and Rostell Williams, June 29, 2015

Description: Interview with Minnie Mosley Gram and Rostell Williams, civil rights activists from Tyler, Texas. Gram and Rostell discuss their early lives, student activism, Jim Crow segregation, and community organizing in Tyler.
Date: June 29, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 01 second
Creator: Gram, Minnie Mosley; Williams, Rostell & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Lupe Mendez on July 6, 2016

Description: Guadalupe "Lupe" Mendez was born in 1976 in Jalisco, Mexico and came of age in Galveston. On the island, he spent his early years in the Mexican American Magnolia Homes and the African American Palm Terrace, two public housing projects that were destroyed during Hurricane Ike. Mendez attended Catholic schools and had to overcome the lack of bilingual education programs. He eventually relocated to Houston to attend the University of St. Thomas, where he as participated in several ethnic and cros… more
Date: July 6, 2016
Duration: 2 hours 2 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Mendez, Lupe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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