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Hyma, Mrs. George Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Don Van Reken

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Van Duren, Ruth Oral History Interview: General Holland History, Don Van Reken

General Holland History

No abstract provided.

Interview With Arnetta Gladden Mackey - Oh 17, Arnetta Gladden Mackey

Winthrop University Oral History Program

This collection includes an interview with Arnetta Gladden Mackey (1948-2009) who, along with Delores Johnson Hurt, was one of the first two undergraduate students admitted to Winthrop in 1964. She graduated from Winthrop in 1967. Mrs. Mackey discusses her childhood and family, her feelings about attending college, receiving her scholarship to Winthrop, and her feelings about attending an all-white school. She also describes her experience living in the dorm, Rat Week, her social life, her experience with her white peers, and her experience with academics. Mrs. Mackey discusses her experience with the lack of Black churches in the area, the …

Interview No. 163, Henry Peña

Combined Interviews

Biography; the courts and Mexican Americans; views on Mexican American groups; Raza Unida Party; attitudes toward the Bicentennial.

Interview No. 176, José Becerra

Combined Interviews

Experiencias como taxista en Tijuana; su vida en Los Angeles, California; experiencias como taxista en Cd. Juárez; comentarios sobre la vida fronteriza; datos biográficos.

Interview No. 177, Judge George Rodríguez, Sr.

Combined Interviews

Biography; El Paso in the 1920's and 1930's; Mexican Americans in El Paso; Mexican American politicians in Texas; prominent Mexican Americans in El Paso, past and present.

Interview No. 164.1, Juan Manuel Araiza

Combined Interviews

Biografía; experiencias con turistas norteamericanos en Ciudad Juárez; puntos de vista sobre la subsistencia en Estados Unidos. Biography; experiences with American tourists in Ciudad Juárez; views on living in the United States. Tape in Spanish.

Interview No. 164.2, Juan Ramón Burciaga Chávez

Combined Interviews

Biografía; experiencias con turistas norteamericanos en Ciudad Juárez.

Biography; experiences with American tourists in Ciudad Juárez.

Tape in Spanish.

Interview No. 178, Manny C. Morales

Combined Interviews

Biography; educational experiences; business opportunities for Mexican Americans; prominent Mexican American businessmen in El Paso; views on present-day Mexican Americans.

Interview No. 185, Ray Daguerre

Combined Interviews

Biography; differences between Sunset Heights, South El Paso, and Ciudad Juarez; Commissioner Lawson; Boundary Commission and Agrarian Claims Commission; border monumentation; Chamizal Dispute; irrigation network system.

Interview No. 167, Ralph Murillo

Combined Interviews

Biography; educational experiences; Black and Chicano movements; Anglo/Mexican relations in El Paso; the G.I. Forum; Raza Unida Party; LULAC and its future.

Interview No. 195, Gaspar Cordero

Combined Interviews

Biography; Mexican Americans in El Paso; experiences with discrimination; the Casino Mexicano in El Paso; work with the Mexican Boundary Commission and ASARCO in Mexico; South El Paso; Ciudad Juarez in the 1920's and 1930's' views on the Bicentennial; future of Mexican Americans.

Interview No. 181, S. L. A. Marshall

Combined Interviews

Biography; encounters with Pancho Villa; Felipe Angeles and Jose Vasconcelos; Albert Bacon Fal l; Pershing Expedition; Columbus Rain; Ciudad Juárez in the teens and 1920's; effect of the railroad on El Paso; Zack Lamar Cobb; Zack White; prominent men in El Paso in l9l5; sentiment in El Paso toward the Mexican Revolution; Pascual Orozco; orientals and blacks in El Paso during the teens; crossing the international bridge; Emil Holmdahl; Sam Dreben; General Pershing; prejudice against Mexicans; the El Paso Herald Post vs. the El Paso Times; friendliness of El Paso; Chris P. Fox; returning to El Paso after World …

Interview No. 187, H. T. Satiesteban

Combined Interviews

Biography; ideas on bilingualism and biculturalism; discrimination; influential Mexican American politicians; Raza Unida Party; militancy; Bicentennial celebration; cultural problems of Mexican Americans who travel in Mexico; the future of Mexican Americans.

Interview No. 207, Fernando Villalobos

Combined Interviews

Biography; discrimination in schools and the business world; SBA in El Paso; business world in general; Mexican American businessmen in El Paso.

Interview No. 156, Paul Moreno

Combined Interviews

Biography; experiences with discrimination; the Chicano Movement.

Interview No. 165, Conrad Ramírez

Combined Interviews

Minority business in El Paso; banks; biography; growing up in Alpine, Texas.

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.

Dave Kouba (With Jack Knotts), May 12-14, 1975

Hmong Oral History Project

Transcription of tapes recorded May 12-14, 1975, by Dave Kouba documenting the evacuation of General Vang Pao and the Hmong from Laos to Thailand.

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 With Mary Denny Matthews - Oh 016, Mary Denny Matthews

Winthrop University Oral History Program

In her April 21, 1975 interview with Ann Yarborough Evans, Mary Denny Matthews shares her experiences as a student from 1915-1919 and her career at Winthrop from 1920-1942. Matthews lends stories of student life and how WWI shaped Winthrop. Matthews also explains why she decided not to teach and instead have a career at Winthrop. Matthews concludes her interview with details on the strike at Winthrop for equal pay for women. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.

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.