Oral History Commons^™

Interview No. 168, Dr. Fred Brewer

Combined Interviews

Biography; Mexican Americans in World War II; experiences as a POW; Bataan March; attitudes toward the Bicentennial.

Interview No. 162, Frank Parga Jr.

Combined Interviews

Biography; experiences at Texas Western College, 1961-1965; Chicanos in business; experiences with the National Guard; views on assimilation.

Interview No. 203, Paul Rey

Combined Interviews

Business in El Paso; his experiences in the military since World War II.

Interview No. 205, Max Weber

Combined Interviews

Biography.

Interview No. 295, Lorenzo G. Alarcon

Combined Interviews

Biography; the founding of San Elizario in 1683; the Salt War of 1877; Billy the Kid and the San Elizario Jail; Loretto School; first flour mill in San Elizario; church fire; oldest pecan tree in Texas.

Interview No. 152, J. C. Machuca

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; experiencias en el condado de Presidio, Texas; experiencias como empleado del Departamento de Migracion y escuelas publicas en El Paso; el establecimiento de LULAC en El Paso. Biography; experiences working in the County of Presidio, Texas; experiences working with the Department of Immigration and public schools in El Paso; the founding of LULAC in El Paso.

The Hensley Settlement: An Oral Folk History Of Its Material Culture, Michael Morse

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A number of aspects of the life style and material culture of a mountain settlement in Eastern Kentucky are studied to provide a portrait of life in that region in the early part of this century.

The Hensley Settlement was established about 1903 when two families, the Hensleys and the Gibbonses, moved onto a 509 acre survey on top of Brush Mountain near Middlesboro, Kentucky. luring the course of almost forty—eight years on the mountain, the settlers multiplied into a community of over eighty people and constructed in excess of 100 log buildings. They had their own school, gristmills, and …

Interview No. 153.2, Mario Acevedo

Combined Interviews

Datos biográficos; la Revolución Mexicana; experiencias con la discriminación; época de la Ley Seca en los Estados Unidos; el Ku Klux Klan; el G. I. Forum. Biography; educational experiences; experiences with discrimination; Prohibition; the Ku Klux Klan; G. I. Forum. Tape and transcript in Spanish

Interview No. 179, José V. Avila Escobedo

Combined Interviews

Su participación en la Revolución Mexicana en Cd. Juárez; situación económica durante la Revolución Mexicana.

Interview No. 180, María Lucero De Cuéllar

Combined Interviews

Costumbres sociales y tradiciones de Ciudad Juárez desde 1900 hasta 1970; vida social en Ciudad Juárez; experiencias en el campo de la cultura como visitante en El Paso.

Interview No. 159, Freddy Morales

Combined Interviews

The causes and effects of the Bowie High School Incident.

Interview No. 204, Jesus J. Estrada

Combined Interviews

Biography; segregation of schools; Anglo/Mexican relations; social mores of the 1940's; work with juvenile delinquents; attitudes toward the Bicentennial.

Interview No. 202, Tent City Volunteers

Combined Interviews

Tiendas de campaña (Ciudad de Carpas) en El Paso ubicadas en la esqina de las caller Quinta y Ochoa en Sur El Paso. Esta campaña, llevada a cabo por varios residentes de esta area, se organizo como parte de una protesta para la consecucion de mejores viviendas. Las tres senoras entrevistadas ofrecieron sus servicios de cocina para las personas involucradas en este movimiento. La entrevista incluye informacion sobre el problema de la vivienda y los residentes de Tiendas de Campaña en la Ciudad.

Interview No. 160, Vicenta Luevano

Combined Interviews

Biografía; migración a Cd. Juárez; experiencias en trabajos; proceso de establecimiento en el barrio bajo; empleo de sus hijas; puntos de vista sobre emigración a los Estados Unidos.

Interview No. 482, Guillermo Villareal

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; education; discrimination of Mexican Americans in education and jobs.

Interview No. 151, Arturo Hernandez

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; experiencias como trabajador migratorio en California, Illinois, Michigan, y Texas; experiencias como chofer en Cd. Juarez.

Oral History Interview: James A. Harmon, James A. Harmon

0064: Marshall University Oral History Collection

James A. Harmon was born in 1890 on his grandfather’s farm outside of Red House, WV. Mr. Harmon reminiscences about his childhood growing up on a 350-acre farm. He earned a sixth grade education at a two-room schoolhouse. When he was 14 years old, Mr. Harmon started his career on the river on the Steamer Calvert. During his interview, Mr. Harmon focuses on his varied jobs on many steamboats. Although he performed well in all of his duties, his greatest passion was engineering. He received his engineer’s license when he was 21 years old. In the audio clip provided, …

Interview No. 172, Armond Jackson

Combined Interviews

Battle for Ciudad Juarez in 1919; agriculture in the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso area; Mexican immigration; bracero and mojado deportations of the 1930's.

See also Interview no. 519

Interview No. 769, Hana Farah

Combined Interviews

Describes the founding of Farah Manufacturing Company and discusses family members.

Interview No. 150, Bernardo Martinez Ramirez

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; experiencias como trabajador con ASARCO y otras companias americanas en Mexico; experiencias como bracero y mojado en Estados Unidos; conflictos con el Departamento de Inmigracion en los Estados Unidos. Nota: Esta es una fiel rendicion del habla del narrador, incluyendo algunos terminos especiales usados en el norte de Mexico y el suroeste de los Estados Unidos.

Interview No. 174, Arleigh B. Templeton

Combined Interviews

Assessment of his administration.

Interview No. 149, Oscar Ornelas

Combined Interviews

Discurso: "El PRI en la Estructura Politica de Mexico."

Interview No. 155, Bertil Sagermark

Combined Interviews

Biography; experiences in the Ethiopian Air Force; civil war in the Congo in the 1950s; his incarceration in Spain.

Interview No. 140, Ramón Adame

Combined Interviews

Biography; educational experiences in Juarez and El Paso; experiences with narcotics and eventual self-rehabilitation; Aliviane, Inc; ethnic breakdown of drug users; relationship of marijuana and other drugs; life in El Paso during 1940s; pushers; his role in the drug organization; ease of bringing drugs accross the border; history of marijuana use in U.S. and Mexico; effects of marijuana.

Interview No. 139, James Tillotson

Combined Interviews

Autobiography.

Interview No. 138, John W. Hogan

Combined Interviews

Autobiography.

Heath, Roy Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Don Van Reken

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 137, Jesús Viramontes

Combined Interviews

Datos Biograficos; experiencias de su familia durante la Revolucion Mexicana; su vida en los Estados Unidos despues de haber salido de Mexico; actividades como miembro y candidato del Partido Raza Unida.

Interview No. 136, Irma Camacho

Combined Interviews

Raza Unida National Convention and local party activities.

Interview No. 135, Edwin M. Reeves

Combined Interviews

Experiences with the United States Border Patrol in the El Paso area during the 1920s and 1930s.