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University of Texas at El Paso

1978

Mexican-American--Relations with Anglos

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Interview No. 354, Olga T. Aiken Oct 1978

Interview No. 354, Olga T. Aiken

Combined Interviews

Recalls the Mexican Revolution; Anglo American/Mexican relations; Ft. Brown incident.


Interview No. 473, Pamela Lee Wong Aug 1978

Interview No. 473, Pamela Lee Wong

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; childhood recollections, including ethnic relations in her grade school in California; drug problems in her high school in Portland, Oregon and other high school experiences; opinions on Mexican and Mexican American men, and being married to a Mexican; comparisons between life in the United States and Mexico; her husband's civic work in Sacramento, California.


Interview No. 444, Andres Ortiz Aug 1978

Interview No. 444, Andres Ortiz

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; experiencias educacionales en las escuelas Smelter y Villas, donde estudio bajo maestras norteamericanas; la Gripa del '18, que causo la muerte de su cunada; experiencias trabajando siete dias sin descanso; la Depresion; la politica de los mexicanos-americanos.


Interview No. 503, Xerxes Wolff R. Mar 1978

Interview No. 503, Xerxes Wolff R.

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.


Interview No. 426, Alice B. Cummings Mar 1978

Interview No. 426, Alice B. Cummings

Combined Interviews

Early life in Van Horn; supposed murder of her father for homesteading in the Green River area; Pascual Orozco's body at Van Horn; Anglo American attitudes toward Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution; reflections on teaching at Alamo School in El Paso (predominantly Mexican American) from the 1940s to the 1970s; Anglo/Mexican relations.


Interview No. 438, Memoirs From South Texas Jan 1978

Interview No. 438, Memoirs From South Texas

Combined Interviews

About 25 interviews conducted by students from Pan American University in the late 1970s, many in Spanish. Mexican Americans from this part of Texas recount a variety of experiences since 1910, including the Mexican Revolution, Immigration, labor issues, ethnic relations, and other topics.