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Interview No. 726, Louise Gates
Interview No. 726, Louise Gates
Combined Interviews
Discusses her childhood in Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, with particular emphaiss on experiences during the Mexican Revolution; recalls the 1920's and 30's in El Paso, speakeasies and local distillers during the prohibition years and the Depression.
Interview No. 507, Bishop Emeritus Sidney M. Metzger
Interview No. 507, Bishop Emeritus Sidney M. Metzger
Combined Interviews
Biographical data; how he became interested in the priesthood; studies and experiences in Rome in the 1920s and 1930s; experiences as Asst. Bishop in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1941; experiences as Bishop of El Paso, including WWII era, labor issues from the 1950s to the 1970s (especially the Farah Strike), the lack of financial resources; the church and Mexican Americans (including acquiring vocations for the priesthood); discrimination; the Chicano Movement; illegal aliens; the organization of the Catholic Church; the Equal Rights Amendment; abortion; ordination of women to the priesthood; contraception; Black Catholics in El Paso; integration. **Also included are …