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Interview No. 146, Armando B. Chavez M.

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; sistema educativo en el estado de Chihuahua; centros principales de Cd. Juarez en la decada de 1930 e imagen actual de la ciudad; fisonomia urbanistica de El Paso; la Depresion y su repercusion en la vida fronteriza; desempleo, repatriacion de mexicanos y consecuencias sociales; repercusiones de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el factor socio-economico de Cd. Juarez; la Revolucion Mexicana y progresivo mejoramiento del nivel de vida; industria nacional; sobresueldo magisterial; reciprocidad comercial Cd. Juarez-El Paso; prerrogativas fronterizas; relaciones politico-economicas del gobierno municipal de Cd. Juarez y el gobierno central de Mexico; relaciones socio-economicas entre las ciudades fronterizas …

Oral History Interview: Forrest Atkinson, Forrest C. Atkinson

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

During his interview, Forrest Atkinson reminisces about growing up on a farm in Cabell County, West Virginia. His father was a tobacco farmer and timber cutter. He focuses on food preservation processes and home entertainment, including music and books. He also focuses on changes in technology during his lifetime. In the audio clip provided, Mr. Atkinson discusses raising and selling tobacco.

Interview No. 147, Manuel Rodriguez

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; situacion economica en el area El Paso-Cd. Juarez (1940-1973); gradual aumento de sueldos; residentes de Estados Unidos en Mexico.

Thompson Document 08: A Letter From Jack Belden To Henrietta Thompson, Jack Belden

Henrietta Thompson Papers

A letter from Jack Belden to Henrietta Thompson. About the Walkout, Belden writes to Thompson: “The only way such a small affair could have significance is a from a human standpoint where it could be fictionalized into a symbol.” On the whole, Belden seems to wish to convey that he regards Thompson's project with ambivalence. As he does in all of the letters in this collection, Belden refers to his poverty, here he also mentions being badly treated by his publishers.

Interview No. 111.2, Jorge Fernandez

Combined Interviews

Impresiones de la Universidad, la ciudad de El Paso, y en general los Estados Unidos.

Impressions of the University, the El Paso area, and the United States.

Tape in Spanish.

Thompson Document 07: A Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Jack Belden, Henrietta Thompson

Henrietta Thompson Papers

A letter from Henrietta Thompson to Jack Belden dated Nov. 12, 1973. Thompson writes to Belden with characteristic warmth, mentioning a mutual acquaintance and a recent review of Belden’s China Shakes the World (1949).

Interview No. 111.1, Fernando Crisosto

Combined Interviews

Impresiones de la Universidad, la ciudad de El Paso, y en general los Estados Unidos.

Impressions of the University, the El Paso area, and the United States.

Tape in Spanish.

Oral History Interview: Frank Brooks, Frank Brooks

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Frank Brooks was born in Fayette County, WV, but grew up in Carter County, KY, in the early 1900s. He attended a one room school house through the third grade. Mr. Brooks began working in coal mines with his father in Borderland, WV, when he was 13 years old. In the audio clip provided, he discusses his first time in a coal mine. He focuses on how he tried to appear bigger than he was in order to be able to work. In his interview, Mr. Brooks compares and contrasts the labor conditions in the mines before and after unionization. …

Interview No. 120, Howard Mccord

Combined Interviews

Biography; influences on his poetry.

Interview No. 110.2, Paulino Viteri

Combined Interviews

Impresiones de las Universidad, la ciudad de El Paso, y en general los Estados Unidos.

Impressions of the University, the El Paso Area, and the United States.

Tape in Spanish.

Interview No. 109, Francisco Noriega

Combined Interviews

La Revolucion Mexicana; Mexico en los ultimos anos del siglo XIX; El Paso en los principios del siglo XX.

Oral History Interview: Charles R. Knightstep, Charles R. Knightstep

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Charles Knightstep was born in Jackson County, WV, but resided in Mason County WV, for the majority of his life. Mr. Knightstep reminiscences about his life growing up on a farm. He describes the process of drying fruits and vegetables and burying apples and potatoes for use during the winter. He explains how his grandmother and mother made lye soap, cottage cheese, and apple butter. He also describes courting his wife and visiting her by horse and buggy. Mr. Knightstep worked for the Kanawha and Michigan railroad beginning in 1915, when he was 15 years old. He describes the changes …

Interview No. 108, Joseph Friedkin

Combined Interviews

Speech given to the El Paso County Historical Society on the activities and accomplishments of the Commission.

Interview No. 110.1, Wilfredo Ramírez

Combined Interviews

Impresiones de la Universidad, la ciudad de El Paso, y en general los Estados Unidos.

Impressions of the University, the El Paso area, and the United States.

Tape and transcript in Spanish.

Interview No. 107, Fred Weldon

Combined Interviews

Speech at the Border Regional Librarians Association Seminar, entitled, "Impact on Libraries of the Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Pornography."

Interview No. 104, Carl R. Cogar

Combined Interviews

Autobiography.

Oral History Interview: Beulah Mckeand, Beulah Mckeand

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Beulah McKeand grew up in the Ceredo-Kenova area of West Virginia. During her interview, she focuses on her childhood experiences and family history. She discusses working at Abbotts, a store in Huntington, West Virginia. She also focuses on folk medicine, specifically uses for yellow root and ginseng. In the audio clip provided, Mrs. McKeand discusses growing ginseng and the market value for the plant.

Oral History Interview: Dr. Don V. Hatton And Jane Hatton, Don V. Hatton, Jane Hatton

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

Dr. Don V. Hatton was a physician and public health specialist in both West Virginia and Kentucky beginning in the 1930s. During his interview, Dr. Hatton discusses Appalachia and focuses on the definition of the region and what it means to be Appalachian. He also discusses his transition from being a public health specialist focused on preventative medicine to a practicing internal medicine physician. In the audio clip provided, he compares and contrasts his public health work in West Virginia and Kentucky through a focus on physical environment, education, and socioeconomic status. Throughout this interview, Dr. Hatton’s wife, Jane Hatton, …

Interview No. 105, Raymond Lopez-Aleman

Combined Interviews

Autobiography

Interview No. 100, Paul C. Davidson

Combined Interviews

Aspects of Lower Valley history, including the effects of the expansion of the city of El Paso; changes in crops grown in the area.

Interview No. 99, Earl Burns, Ruby Burns

Combined Interviews

Effects of the depression on El Paso; discussion of their respective careers; Josephine Clardy Fox.

Interview No. 97, Oscar H. Mcmahan

Combined Interviews

History of the University, especially his work with the Building Committee.

Interview No. 98, Frederick Carter

Combined Interviews

Autobiography.

Interview No. 96, Armando B. Chávez M.

Combined Interviews

El sistema educativo de México y Cd. Juárez; tópicos sobre la historia de México; su carrera política.

Interview No. 95, Mrs. Frank Bowers

Combined Interviews

20th Century El Paso, including the Mexican Revolution, social customs, and the Depression.

Oral Interview Of Viena Hendrickson, Viena Johnson Hendrickson

Oral Interviews

Viena Hendrickson discussed her parent’s involvement with the socialist and workers’ movements among the Finns of northern Minnesota. She described their political and social organizations. Hendrickson also talked about her own involvement in the Socialist and Farmer-Labor parties and the latter’s eventual union with the Democratic Party. She described how women became involved in politics, especially in the Farmer-Labor Women’s Federation, and then shared her impressions of Eugene Debs, Floyd B. Olson, Elmer Benson, Henry Shipstead, Harold Stassen and Hubert Humphrey. Finally, Hendrickson discussed red baiting in the 1940s and 1950s, isolationism and her views on the United Nations.

Interview No. 103, Frank Pickrell

Combined Interviews

Early 20th Century El Paso; the Elite Confectionery.

Oral Interview Of Alvin Arneson, Alvin Arneson

Oral Interviews

Interview with Alvin Arneson on schools and farming during the 1920s and 1930s, and his involvement in progressive politics in North Dakota and Minnesota.

Interview No. 92, Eugene O. Porter

Combined Interviews

Biography; some points of early El Paso area history; his experiences at the University; professors and administrators he has known; his outside activities, including the El Paso County Historical Society and Password.

Interview No. 87.2, Elizabeth Kelly

Combined Interviews

History of the El Paso Public Library