Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 7 of 7
Full-Text Articles in Oral History
Interview No. 311, Arturo O. Pena
Interview No. 311, Arturo O. Pena
Combined Interviews
Biography; school experiences; dating patterns among peers; employment experiences; the Depression; involvement in LULAC; the word "Chicano"; illegal aliens.
Interview No. 308, Estella Duran Vega
Interview No. 308, Estella Duran Vega
Combined Interviews
Biography; both parents of miners backgrounds; educational background; dating patterns among peers; employed as seamstress during WWII, farm worker, registered nurse; impact of Spanish flu, Prohibition, the Depression, peso devaluation; political awareness; opinion of Chicano Movement; views on the illegal alien, the Ku Klux Klan.
Interview No. 555, Sergio Gonzales, Jr.
Interview No. 555, Sergio Gonzales, Jr.
Combined Interviews
Talks about his childhood in Del Rio, Texas; how he became County Judge; about the LULAC; the Ku Klux Klan; the years of the Depression; and relations between Anglos and Mexican Americans.
Interview No. 341, Mamie T. Finan
Interview No. 341, Mamie T. Finan
Combined Interviews
Background; experiences as a colonist in Mexico; experiences during and after the Mexican Revolution; meeting Charles Lindberg and Luz Corral de Villa; life on ranches in Mexico; the Depression years; social customs; Good Neighbor organization; discrimination.
Interview No. 340, J. A. Bonnet
Interview No. 340, J. A. Bonnet
Combined Interviews
Recollections of the Mexican Revolution; growing up in Eagle Pass, Texas; smuggling activities in Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras; the Prohibition years; the Depression.
Interview No. 420, Bernardo Villegas
Interview No. 420, Bernardo Villegas
Combined Interviews
Biographical data; school years; College of Mines; Mexican Revolution; job experiences; the Depression; Prohibition; the word Chicano; opinions on the Chicano Movement and undocumented workers; old El Paso streetcars; the Chinese community in El Paso; entertainment in old El Paso; some old-time El Paso doctors.
Interview No. 418, Angel Oaxaca
Interview No. 418, Angel Oaxaca
Combined Interviews
Datos biograficos; sus primeros trabajos en la ciudad de Chihuahua; su venida a El Paso; trabajos que tuvo en El Paso, incluyendo los que fueron en muebleria; la Depresion y la epoca de la Ley Seca; la palabra 'Chicano'.