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Interview No. 699, Julio Santoscoy

Combined Interviews

Datos biográficos; datos históricos sobre Piedras Negras; como llegaron antecedentes de gente negra a Múzquiz; la Revolucion Mexicana; relaciones entre Eagle Pass y Piedras Negras; inmigración; la devaluación del peso; el MOvimiento Chicano; el Ku Klux Klan.

Biographical data; the Mexican Revolution; relations between Eagle Pass; immigration;the devaluation of the peso; the Chicano Movement; the Ku Klux Klan.

Interview No. 506, Emenecio E. Ramirez

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; como y porque se acerco al Partido Raza Unida; experiencias como un joven desilucionado y sus problemas con la ley; su rehabilitacion; como fue que su esposa fue esterilizada; su filosofia personal acerca del Movimiento Chicano. **Esta es una fiel rendicion del habla del narrador, usando terminos dialecticos usados en el estado de Texas. Incluidos con esta entrevista, unas canciones y poemas escritos por el Sr. Ramirez.

Interview No. 607, Alejandro Riojas

Combined Interviews

Datos biográficos. La Revolución; Eagle Pass a los principios del siglo XX: la influenza española de 1918; relaciones étnicas; la Ley Seca; la discriminación; relaciones entre Piedras Negras y Eagle Pass.

Biographical data; the Mexican Revolution; Eagle Pass in the early 1900s; the 1918 Spanish Flu; ethnic relations; Prohibition; discrimination; relations between Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass.

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. 299, National Chicano/Latino Conference On Immigration

Combined Interviews

Proceedings of conference held in San Antonio, Texas.

Interview No. 537, John H. Shaffer

Combined Interviews

Recollections of shootouts with smugglers on the Rio Grande in the 1930s.

Interview No. 287.4, Organization Of U. S. Border Cities (Ousbc)

Combined Interviews

Proceedings of meeting held in San Diego, California.

Interview No. 298, William Kunstler

Combined Interviews

Talk given at UTEP for the Lyceum Series. Includes criticism of the legal system in the United States, racism vs. ethnic minorities, and the Bakke Case (focus on the presentation).

Interview No. 417, Herbert E. Cooper

Combined Interviews

Biography; recollections about growing up in Mexico and relations with Mexicans; educational experiences in El Paso; Texas National Guard; his work as an attorney in relation to undocumented workers.

Interview No. 1767, Christina Paredes

Combined Interviews

In 1924, Christina Paredes worked at Farah for 35 years in San Antonio St. Christina recalls the work environment not being all positive during her years at Farah. Christina mentions that they were strict with hiring people and the process like taking their birth certificate; you had to be 17 or 18 years old and could not be older than that or else they would not hire them. Christina also said that they would encourage people to bring their families and work as well.

Christina Paredes then goes on and talks about people she remembers, like her friend Carmen who …

Interview No. 646, Arthur Adams

Combined Interviews

Experiences as a Border Patrol agent,1948-1957; working with Chinese illegal

aliens, 1950s; experiences with the U.S. Customs Service .

Interview No. 1760, Parra

Combined Interviews

Parra started working at Farah in the Spring of 1968, she then quit for two years and came back in 1969. She decided to go back because his son wanted to go to college and Parra wanted to support him monetarily. After a couple of years, she started to get tired of the continuous bad treatment, soon after the strike began.

As soon as she started to work for Farah, she noticed the different and superior type of treatment each worker received. Parra remembers some of the workers would go out with managers to try and get a raise. She …

Interview No. 609, Richard Ross

Combined Interviews

Join the Marine Corps and due to accident was discharged honorably in Houston. He has dedicated most of his time doing sketches. He especially finds pleasure doing so in Mexico, do to the typical decorations and customs. he relates his experiences in an encampment in Mexico.

Interview No. 1748, Gisela Avalos

Combined Interviews

Her name is Gisela Avalos and she was fighting in the strike in May 9th. She says that they were fighting for their rights that she knew they were violating them. She also mentions that she had a husband in that time and he accepted to leave her because she needed to become a new person. She says that at the beginning they wouldn’t so anything about the company violating their rights, but they got tired and they went to the union to protest for women rights, but many men won’t listen to them and that had to be change. …

Interview No. 304, Kenneth Flynn

Combined Interviews

Views on problems of the border; the work of Project Bravo; uniqueness of Ciudad Juárez / El Paso; non-Mexican American ethnic groups in El Paso.

Interview No. 287.3, Organization Of U. S. Border Cities (Ousbc)

Combined Interviews

Proceedings of meeting held in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Interview No. 339, Ed Kerley

Combined Interviews

Talk on the Maquiladoras.

Interview No. 457, Adolfo Gonzalez D.

Combined Interviews

Relata detalles de un incidente en el cual afirma que fue detenido por unos oficiales de Inmigracion en un puente en El Paso.

Interview No. 338, Gerald L. Coyle

Combined Interviews

"Work of the INS in the El Paso Area."

Interview No. 425, Robert T. Hudgins

Combined Interviews

Biography; work experiences in business and subsequent position with IRS and Customs Service; interesting cases encountered while working for the government on the border, including fraud and smuggling.

Interview No. 509, The Cia's Secret Army

Combined Interviews

Audio portion of CBS-TV Special Report on CIA-sponsored Cuban exiles who have fought against Castro. Host: Bill Moyers.

Interview No. 337, Roger Brandemuehl

Combined Interviews

"The Illegal Alien Problem."

Interview No. 552, Joseph F. Friedkin

Combined Interviews

Biographical Data; history of the IBWC; land and water disputes arbitrated by the commission.

Interview No. 296, José R. Tinajero, Luis G. Sarellano

Combined Interviews

Raza Unida Party nationally, statewide, and locally.

Interview No. 647, Wiliam Hughes

Combined Interviews

Experiences with the Customs Service, 1960-1977;

observations on changes in the Service since 1960

Interview No. 734, Lewis Jones

Combined Interviews

Discussion of his work with the Customs Service at the bridges in the El Paso - Juarez area since 1945, especially export-import control and seizures of contraband.

Interview No. 329, J. Lawrence Mcconville

Combined Interviews

Dr. McConville gives an informal impressionistic analysis of life in the Borderlands.

Interview No. 297, Seminar: Immigration And Public Policy

Combined Interviews

Seminar to discuss immigration and its effects on the press, the law, employment and economy, education, and human services. Held in El Paso, Texas.

Interview No. 310, Mr. Al Ratner, Mrs. Al Ratner

Combined Interviews

Biography; early businesses in El Paso; families who lived on Hawthorne Street in Sunset Heights; Mrs. Ratner's background; early El Paso families; school experiences; General Escobar; refugee families who moved into the Sunset Heights area during the Mexican Revolution; Anglo/Mexican relations; the word "Chicano"; Golden Years and decline of Sunset Heights; El Paso during World War II and going to Juarez to purchase rationed items; gambling and prostitution; development of El Paso's Jewish community; Italian POW camp in El Paso at Washington Park; other comments on the history of El Paso.

Interview No. 291, Frank Quartell

Combined Interviews

Biography; his beginnings in music; the Edgewater Beach Hotel and Mr. Severo G. Gonzales of the Central Cafe in Cd. Juarez; working in Galveston, Cd. Juarez, and El Paso; prominent businessmen in El Paso in the late 1920's and early 1930's; the first radio station in El Paso; people who used to frequent the Central Cafe.