Oral History Commons^™

Interview No. 222, Belen B. Robles

Combined Interviews

Biography; experiences with discrimination; the Women's Liberation Movement; the Chicano Movement; her role as National Vice President of LULAC; extensive statement of the history of LULAC in El Paso and throughout the Southwest.

Interview No. 220, Lic. Rafael Gonzales Garduno

Combined Interviews

Su trabajo con la Aduana Mexicana; interesantes experiencias en este campo; contrabando; Operacion Intercepcion; maquiladoras; Articulos Gancho.

Interview No. 221, Heriberta Salazar De Lopez

Combined Interviews

Biografia; emigrada de Matamoros, Coahuila a Ciudad Juarez; experiencias de trabajo en El Paso; experiencias con el Servicio de Inmigracion de los Estados Unidos; actitud hacia los Estados Unidos; actitud hacia los Mexico-Americanos; Chicanos; vida en Ciudad Juarez; diferencias en los patrones de vida de Mexico y los Estados Unidos.

Interview No. 226, Aurora Mendoza

Combined Interviews

La Revolucion Mexicana; su vida en Mexico y en los Estados Unidos.

Interview No. 227, Customs Inspector

Combined Interviews

Life in Junction, Texas; school years; Anglo/Mexican relations in Junction; experiences in the Air Force; work with the federal government; work experiences while with the Customs Service in San Ysidro, California and El Paso, Texas; attitdes toward the Bicentennial.

Interview No. 228, Luciano Miranda Reyes

Combined Interviews

Vida y ambiciones de los ciudadanos mexicanos que viven en el interior del paisy las razones por las que llegan a las regiones fronterizas.

Interview No. 224, Rafael Valdespino Jr.

Combined Interviews

Biografia; discriminacion; economia nacional desde 1930 a la fecha; brutalidad policiaca en Ciudad Juarez; Catolicismo Romano; formacion del Second Ward Homestead Association; problemas en el Segundo Barrio; Concilio Pro Conservacion del Segundo Barrio y el Concilio de la Comunidad del Segundo Barrio.

Interview No. 217.1, Carl Barnett

Combined Interviews

Biography; Mexican aliens and their effect on El Paso economy and labor situation; ethnic relations in El Paso; juvenile aliens; views on the Chicano Movement; education; bilingual education.

Interview No. 217.2, Judge George Rodríquez, Jr.

Combined Interviews

Biography; Mexican aliens in El Paso in relation to crime; ethnic relations; views on the Chicano Movement.

Interview No. 219, Jose Roman, Jr., M.D.

Combined Interviews

The Bracero Program.

The Oral Folk History Surrounding The Life Of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson, Peggy Boaz

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The oral folk history of William Bernard "Big Six" Henderson is unique in that Henderson himself has been a contributing factor in keeping the tales of his moonshining experiences in the oral traditions of distinct areas of Kentucky, especially Cumberland County. Interviewing Henderson and apprehended and non-apprehended moonshiners allowed speculation into the concept that Henderson was indeed a folk hero. Using Dixon Wector's requirements for heroes, the hero performing unselfish service, acquiring a nickname, obtaining sympathy for handicaps, struggles, and failures, and reaching hero status after death, and providing examples of Henderson's encounters with moonshiners, verifies Henderson's hero status, except …

Interview No. 302, Discussion On Immigration

Combined Interviews

Jose Jaquez Medina (CASA), Agnes Lujan (Comite Contra la represion del gran jurado federal), and Ezequiel Lopez (ATM) discuss repression, discrimination, undocumented workers, unions, and their effect on Chicanos.

Discussion is in Spanish.

Interview No. 242, Dr. Jesus Castillo Acuna

Combined Interviews

Platica sobre problemas de la frontera, incluyendo los de la clase marginada; migracion a Ciudad Juarez; problemas de salud.

Interview No. 479, Yolanda Solorio O.

Combined Interviews

Vida de una empleada bancaria.

Interview No. 218, Juan Hernandez

Combined Interviews

Biography; life in the Segundo Barrio (South El Paso); the Chicano movement; comparison of life in the barrio with his present living conditions.

Interview No. 237, Robert Miller

Combined Interviews

Uniqueness of the Woolworth Store in South El Paso Street; day-to-day routines of the store; the impact on business brought about by the end of the streetcar line; merchants accusing Immigration Officers of Gestapo tactics; pilferage; illegal aliens.

An Interpretation Of The Florida Ex-Slaves' Memories Of Slavery & The Civil War, Dianna Zacharias

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study is an analysis and interpretation of oral folk history preserved in the Florida Narratives, one state collection of ex-slave narratives from the larger Federal Writers' Project collection compiled in the 1930s. Fifty-four tales were extracted from this state collection and used as a basis for this study. These personal reminiscences, called memorates by folklorists, fell into two categories: slavery and the Civil war. The tales about slavery were compared to the theses and conclusions regarding slavery held by sociologists and The tales about the Civil War and emancipation were gathered by historians.

The comparison revealed that there …

Interview No. 236, Francisco Holguin

Combined Interviews

Biografia; tradiciones historicas, sociales y religiosas del pueblo de Socorro; Semana Santa; la Gerra de la Sal de 1977; la historia del santo San Miguel. Nota: Esta es una fiel rendicion del habla del narrador, incluyendo algunos terminos dialecticos usados en el norte de Mexico y el suroeste de los Estados Unidos.

Interview No. 235, Hortencia Villegas

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 241, Dick Gregory

Combined Interviews

Talk given on UTEP campus through the University Lyceum Series. Includes views on modern American society, politics, and the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Interview No. 234, Rene Mascarenas Miranda

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 287.1, Organization Of U. S. Border Cities (Ousbc)

Combined Interviews

Border mayors discuss the need to influence state and federal governments toward the solution of border problems. Held in El Paso, Texas.

Interview No. 283, Paul Berry, Sonny Yates

Combined Interviews

Historical aspects of the Sun Carnival; its economic impact on El Paso; lack of Mexican American participation from its origin to the present; workings of the Sun Carnival Association.

Interview No. 332, Anonymous

Combined Interviews

Experiencias de su niñes y adolescencia; como empezo su vida de prostituta en Cd. Juarez y sus experiencias.

Interview No. 478, Jesus Reyes

Combined Interviews

Experiencias como taxista en Cd. Juarez.

Interview No. 214, Chris P. Fox

Combined Interviews

Relations between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez; experiences as Sheriff; car-stealing racket in Mexico; Operation Intercept; impressions of the Chicano Movement; court suit on unequal education in El Paso; Anglo/Mexican relations; Stormsville; Prohibition; border relations

Interview No. 197, S. L. A. Marshall

Combined Interviews

War correspondence

Interview No. 481, Jose Angel Conchello

Combined Interviews

Discurso.

Interview No. 477, Chistes Fronterizos

Combined Interviews

No abstract provided.

Interview No. 323, John O. West

Combined Interviews

Paper entitled, "Hispanic Folklore" and article from the journal of American Folklore entitled, "Cultural Confusion on the Playground."