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Articles 2131 - 2160 of 2818
Full-Text Articles in Oral History
Interview No. 359, Lalo Corral
Interview No. 359, Lalo Corral
Combined Interviews
Childhood and school days in El Paso; military service; employment in El Paso; 1954-present; activities as member of steelworkers union Grievance Committee; strikes by steelworkers at ASARCO, especially strike of 1967-1968; impact of undocumented workers and Green Carders on the El Paso economy; wage scales in El Paso compared to other parts of the United States.
Interview No. 328, Hortense Mciver
Interview No. 328, Hortense Mciver
Combined Interviews
Biographical data; school years; the Depression; move to El Paso in 1938; World War II; how became member of the Sierra Club, the American Friends Service Committee, and the El Paso United Nations organization; protest against the El Paso Electric Company; impressions of El Paso in the past 40 years.
Interview No. 384, Francisco Martinez Parga
Interview No. 384, Francisco Martinez Parga
Combined Interviews
Experiencias Revolucionarias Platica de matanza de Federales y matanza de mujeres en Camargo. Perdio a su madre en la gripa del '18. Se vino a E.U. despues de el '18. Obtuvo residencia en 1928 y ciudadania en 1940. Estudio en Bowie, Villas, Tech (en la nocturna). Vivio en Chihuahuita. Platica de una inundacion en 1928. Platica sobre el "Wyoming gang", otras pandillas y barrios en El Paso. Sus experiencias laborales, la Depresion, la Prohibicion, discriminacion, trabajo como electricista aereo en la II Guerra Mundial, etc.
Interview No. 500, Wilma Rudolph
Interview No. 536, Oscar Tejeda
Interview No. 536, Oscar Tejeda
Combined Interviews
Interview conducted while Mr. Tejeda is on patrol, including information on INS funding, routine, trails used by undocumented persons, apprehension of aliens.
Interview No. 460, Carlota Mota
Interview No. 460, Carlota Mota
Combined Interviews
Datos biograficos; la Revolucion Mexicana y los Villistas; Juarez desde 1923.
Interview No. 526, Carlos Ferniza
Interview No. 526, Carlos Ferniza
Combined Interviews
Biografia; experiencias laborales en los Estados Unidos como indocumentado; la palabra 'Chicano'; devaluacion del peso en 1976; la falta de representacion politica para Mexicano-Americanos; su trabajo con el Depto. de Bomberos en Cd. Juarez; su opinion acerca de indocumentados.
Interview No. 468, Juan Ortega S.
Interview No. 468, Juan Ortega S.
Combined Interviews
Datos biograficos; recuerdos de sus dias de escuela; experiencias cuando cruzo a Estados Unidos en 1962 y sus experiencias laborales; arreglo su pasaporte despues que se caso y le nacieron cuatro hijos en Los Angeles; su opinion sobre la palabra 'Chicano'.
Interview No. 467, Arturo Avila C.
Interview No. 467, Arturo Avila C.
Combined Interviews
Datos biograficos; experiencias educacionales y laborales desde que tenia cuatro anos; sus experiencias cuando cruzo como indocumentado en 1973; experiencias laborales en Estados Unidos; la devaluacion del peso en 1976; la palabra 'Chicano'.
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. 513, Baltazar Luevano L.
Interview No. 513, Baltazar Luevano L.
Combined Interviews
Biografia; sus estudios en un seminario en Mexico; experiencias laborales en Ciudad Juarez, incluyendo su trabajo como maestro en secundaria; problemas laborales.
Interview No. 358, Benjamin Fernandez
Interview No. 719, Rita Faudora
Interview No. 719, Rita Faudora
Combined Interviews
Public schooling, Old Ft, Bliss, childhood entertainment (circuses, dog and pony shows), retail stores and proprietors, Mexican revolution, her 25 years as assistant to obstetricians and pediatricians in El Paso, prohibition and politics,
Interview No. 357, Convocation On Ministry To The Undocumented
Interview No. 357, Convocation On Ministry To The Undocumented
Combined Interviews
No abstract provided.
Interview No. 356.1, Utep 65th Anniversary Ceremony
Interview No. 356.1, Utep 65th Anniversary Ceremony
Combined Interviews
Recorded at Ft. Bliss. Speaker introduces distinguished guests; Dr. Templeton delivers speech on the beginning of the College of Mines; speech by Major General John J. Coler.
Interview No. 356.2, Henderson E. Van Surdam
Interview No. 356.2, Henderson E. Van Surdam
Combined Interviews
Speech given at UTEP's 65th Anniversary ceremony.
Interview No. 355, Vernie A. Stembridge
Interview No. 355, Vernie A. Stembridge
Combined Interviews
Introduction of Dr. Stembridge, including biographical data; speech by Dr. Stembridge.
Interview No. 619, Abigail N. De Zayas
Interview No. 619, Abigail N. De Zayas
Combined Interviews
Vivió en Durango durante la Revolución. Vida en una hacienda en Durango. Su padre fue exiliado porque era Porfirista. Recuerda la gripa del '18 y la Depresión. Su esposo fue oficial federal y su hijo aduanal, quien murió a manos de unos contrabandistas por un
contrabando que había detenido. Ella es artesana destacando su trabajo de alfarería y costura del cual vivió mucho tiempo .
Interview No. 354, Olga T. Aiken
Interview No. 354, Olga T. Aiken
Combined Interviews
Recalls the Mexican Revolution; Anglo American/Mexican relations; Ft. Brown incident.
Interview No. 353, Cecilia Almaguer A.
Interview No. 353, Cecilia Almaguer A.
Combined Interviews
Nacida en el Rancho de Alazan cerac de Brownsville, Texas; relata como las robaban gavillas de bandidos; expliva que se tuvieron que cambiar de Brownsville debido a que la molestia de los Rangers era mucha; cuenta como a un primo de ella lo mataron los Rangers sin ser culpable de nada; vivio en el valle durante la Depression, Prohibicion, etc.; servio como trabajadora domestica; su hijo fue soldadao de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Interview No. 698, Harold D. Frakes
Interview No. 698, Harold D. Frakes
Combined Interviews
Impressions of migrant poverty along the border; incidents in connection with apprehension of aliens, including attempt on his life; work on the Canadian border with Hungarian refugees in 1956; work as u.s. Marshall during James Meredith's entry into the University of Mississippi in 1962, including violent confrontations with white protesters.
Interview No. 349, Anne Magee
Interview No. 349, Anne Magee
Combined Interviews
Recollections of her father as a Confederate soldier and Ku Klux Klan member; remembers her grandmother made Klan gowns; witnessed part of the Mexican Revolution in Brownsville, Texas; lived on a plantation where Mexicans were hired; lived on the border during Prohibition, the 1918 Flu Epidemic, and the Depression; social customs.
Interview No. 352, Julian Garcia
Interview No. 351, Edinburg Texas Resident
Interview No. 351, Edinburg Texas Resident
Combined Interviews
Durante la Revolucion cruzo talegas de oro hacia Estados Unidos de Mexico; fue "bootlegger" y trabajaba para si mismo; estuvo enfermo durante la gripa del 1918, tuvo un restaurante; trabajo en el arroz, como trabajador agricola, etc.' fue discriminado en Bay City, Texas (no lo dejaron entrar a un restaurante); su sobrina esta casada con un americano.
Interview No. 350.2, Jennie S. Aguirre
Interview No. 350.2, Jennie S. Aguirre
Combined Interviews
Recuerdos de su padre, que trabajo como ingeniero en Mexico; sus actitudes acerca de sus antecedentes; discriminación en contra de ella por parte de mexicano-americanos. Born in Mexico; her father was an engineer who worked in Mexico and later returned to the United States in 1910s; feelings about her mixed heritage; discrimination toward her by Mexican Americans. Tape in Spanish.
Interview No. 559, Tony Trad
Interview No. 559, Tony Trad
Combined Interviews
Datos biograficos; el trabajo de su padre como comerciante ambulante en Mexico. Argentina y Texas; discriminacion hacia los de ascendencia libanesa; sufrimientos durante la epoca de la depresion; sus experiencias vendiendo ropa a los braceros durante los 1950s. (Este transcrito contiene terminos dialecticos usados en la region fronteriza de los Estados Unidos y Mexico, y han sido escritos tal y como la persona entrevistada los uso.)
Interview No. 347, Alice White North
Interview No. 347, Alice White North
Combined Interviews
Biography; childhood in Iowa; her father's experience as a Northern soldier during the Civil War; move to Edinburgh, Texas, in 1930; teaching experiences with Mexican children; the Depression; 1918 Spanish Flu; experiences as a volunteer during World War I; her poetry. (Also included is a collection of Ms. North's poetry.)
Interview No. 721, David C. Newton
Interview No. 721, David C. Newton
Combined Interviews
Growing up on a ranch in the Penitas-EdCouch area, ethnic relations, raids by Border Patrol, a discussion of terms "wetback" and "Chicano", smuggling activities along the Rio Grande.
Interview No. 348, Bernabe Solis
Interview No. 348, Bernabe Solis
Combined Interviews
Nacido en Monterrey, anduvo como mozo con Villa, defendio a una muchacha mexicana de los Rangers a balazos. Trabajo como ingeniero experimental en el campo; trabajo en la fabrica Ford y en una fundicion en Detroit. Fue soldado en la Segunda Gerra Mundial. Su hijo murio en Korea. El fue herido en Japon. Vio en accion al escuadron #201 de Mexico.
Interview No. 350.1, Antonio Aguirre
Interview No. 350.1, Antonio Aguirre
Combined Interviews
Recuerdos de su niñez y creciendo cerca del Río Grande; sus experiencias en una escuela de ranchería, aprendiendo inglés y español; actitudes acerca de los Texas Rangers; trabajadores indocumentados.
Grew up along Rio Grande; attended makeshift rancheria school with instruction in English and Spanish; attitudes toward Texas Rangers; viewed corpses of Mexicans killed by Texas Rangers; hired undocumented workers on father's large farm.
Tape in Spanish.