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[News Script: Raza]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 29, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Journal Article: Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus]

Description: An article from The New England Journal of Medicine discussing recent medical progress in discovering how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is transmitted and the groups that are at risk to become infected with the virus that progresses into the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Date: October 29, 1987
Creator: The New England Journal of Medicine
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Lula Stroud, June 29, 2015

Description: Interview with Lula Stroud, a retired postal worker from McAllen, Texas. In her interview, Stroud discusses her family history, experiences with segregation, and living along the U.S./Mexico border.
Date: June 29, 2015
Duration: 50 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Stroud, Lula; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Narciso Aleman, June 29, 2015

Description: Interview with Narciso Aleman, civil rights activist from Pharr, Texas. He discusses his early life, education, involvement with the Chicano movement, Colegio Jacinto TreviƱo, and civil rights activism in South Texas.
Date: June 29, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Aleman, Narciso; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Daniel Acevedo, June 29, 2015

Description: Interview with Daniel Acevedo, civil rights activist from Pharr, Texas. He discusses his early life, education, involvement with the Chicano movement, Colegio Jacinto TreviƱo, and civil rights activism in South Texas.
Date: June 29, 2015
Duration: 47 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Acevedo, Daniel; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Jesus Ramirez, June 29, 2015

Description: Interview with Jesus Ramirez, a lawyer from San Juan, Texas. During his interview, Ramirez discusses his family background, Chicano activism, including the Edcouch-Elsa student walkout, and La Raza Unita.
Date: June 29, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 1 minute 49 seconds
Creator: Ramirez, Jesus & Bynum, Katherine
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Joe Morales on July 29, 2016.

Description: Mr. Morales started the first newspaper for Latinas/os in Fort Bend County in 1975. He spent a lot of his life in Corpus Christie, but moved to Houston and then Rosenberg. He mentioned labor unions, experiencing discrimination, and the transitioning of neighborhoods from predominantly White with some Latinas/os to more people of color.
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Grevious, Danielle & Morales, Joe
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with David Willard on June 29, 2016.

Description: David Willard is an educator in Beaumont, Texas. In his interview, he discussed his father's work and legacy in the desegregation process in southeast Texas, his own work in civil rights and education, and the ongoing struggles of the black community in the region.
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Grevious, Danielle; Bobadilla, Eladio & Willard, David
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Gethrel Williams, June 29, 2016

Description: Gethrel Williams was from Beaumont, Texas. She was a long time civil rights and labor activist. During her time working for the U.S. Postal Service, she became a leader in in the American Postal Workers Union, both locally and nationally. In 2007, she was elected to the Beaumont City Council as Council-member-at-Large. In her interview, she discussed her efforts to desegregate public accommodations, her participation in the labor movement, and her work as a public, elected official. She dā€¦ more
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Bobadilla, Eladio & Williams, Gethrel
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Addie Walker, July 29, 2016

Description: Ms. Walker grew up Raywood, Texas which is a unincorporated town of a few hundred people. She was born in 1943 in Liberty County. Walker discussed the Black neighborhood she grew up in and changes in Raywood over time. Walker described her experiences attending segregated schools including the quality of resources and instruction. Walker also discussed the role of colorism in the community. Walker described a divide between some Black children and Creole children based on color. Walker left Rayā€¦ more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Howard, Jasmin & Walker, Addie
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Janelle Robles, July 29, 2016

Description: Jannell Robles was born in 1987 in Northern Pasadena. She grew-up in an extended family environment. Robles recalls her family sharing stories of encounters with the Ku Klux Klan in Pasadena. After graduating from high school, she got involved in the Immigrant Rights Movement. Robles worked as an Immigrant Advocacy Coordinator for the Central American Resource Center, an Immigrant Outreach Coordinator for The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in San Antonio, a Reconciā€¦ more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Robles, Janelle
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Bobby Caldwell, June 29, 2016

Description: Bobby Caldwell was born in Dallas in 1934. He grew up in different areas of Dallas, and faced barriers with discrimination and health issues as he had polio at age 3. He moved to Houston to attend Texas Southern University, and in 1957, he earned his law degree. He began practicing law in the 1960s, and quickly became involved in defending student activists, beginning with SNCC. Mr. Caldwell also became involved in pressing HISD to include African American studies in their curriculum, a movemenā€¦ more
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Caldwell, Bobby; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Cristina Martinez June 6, 2016.

Description: Cristina E. Martinez was born in 1961 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Arriving in the United States when she was twelve years old, her family settled in Katy, a northeastern suburb of Houston, Texas. She witnessed sexual discrimination due to her unwillingness to hide that she was a Mexican lesbian. Martinez would eventually be kicked out of her house and was taken in by LGBTQ members of the Montrose community. Due to her experiences, she would found a Rainbow House for queer youth who experienced homā€¦ more
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra & Martinez, Cristina
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Clifton Lyons and Diana O'Neal

Description: Diana Lyons was born in Galveston, Texas in 1954, and grew up on the west side of the Island. Although she experienced integration during her school years, Lyons faced discrimination in the schools she attended, including colorism and being placed in Special Education classes due to her behavior. Lyons also witnessed several episodes of racial tension on the Island. She would drop out of school and attend beauty and nursing school. Most recently, she has been involved in the Residentsā€™ council ā€¦ more
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Lyons, Diana
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Patricia Gonzales, July 29, 2016

Description: Patricia "Pat" Gonzales was born in 1967 in Houston in the Gulfgate area. She moved to the toxic Manchester neighborhood, a predominately Latina/o area of town next to the oil refineries, after she graduated from high school. Gonzales became active in the environmental justice movement due to the health issues she acquired while living next to the refineries. She later worked for the Texas Organizing Project to address the lack of infrastructure in the Northern Pasadena area. Gonzales discussesā€¦ more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Gonzales, Patricia
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Margaret Toal on June 29, 2016.

Description: Discussed her experiences as a white woman living in a quickly changing racial environment, her experiences with gender and race, and her work as a journalist covering the civil rights movement and its struggles.
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 11 seconds
Creator: Grevious, Danielle; Bobadilla, Eladio & Toal, Margaret
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Stephen Wright, June 29, 2016

Description: Mr. Wright was born in Texas. He went to Texas A & M University where he obtained certification in education. He began his teaching career in Lewisville and became very active in the American Teacher's Federation. He and his family moved to Nacogdoches, where he continued his teaching, union activism, and became politically active. He is currently running for state representative. Mr. Wright spoke in his interview about racial tensions in Nacogdoches, the progress and barriers for union activisā€¦ more
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 48 seconds
Creator: Howard, Jasmin; May, Meredith & Wright, Stephen
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Dallas Willis, July 29, 2016

Description: Dallas ā€œDallyā€ Willis was born in 1920 in Dallas, Texas but grew up in Cleburne, Texas, raised by a single mother of seven children after his father abandoned the family. Willis attended high school in Cleburne and joined the Marine Corps in 1941. In the Marine Corps, Willis worked as an aerial photographer mapping the Pacific territories controlled by Japan. Upon returning to Cleburne, Willis worked for Southwestern Bail and joined the Communication Workers of America union. He moved to Midlanā€¦ more
Date: July 29, 2016
Duration: 36 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Willis, Dallas
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Floyd Price, June 29, 2016

Description: Floyd Price was born in Lubbock and grew up in a near by town. Floyd graduated from Dunbar High School in 1959. He received a Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology from Wayland Baptist University in 1976. Floyd is a retired veteran of the Lubbock Police Department where he served for 33 years. He also served in the U.S. Army. Currently he works part-time with the Lubbock County Sheriff's Department.Floyd has always been a public servant, and especially enjoys working witā€¦ more
Date: June 29, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 42 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Price, Floyd
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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