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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. 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. 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. 461, Dr. Octavio Garcia
Interview No. 461, Dr. Octavio Garcia
Combined Interviews
Born in Mexico; person reads a summary of Dr. Garcia's life, prepared by a staff person at Pan American University; the Mexican Revolution, when Dr. Garcia's family took refuge in the United States; his medical practice in South Texas.
Interview No. 438, Memoirs From South Texas
Interview No. 438, Memoirs From South Texas
Combined Interviews
About 25 interviews conducted by students from Pan American University in the late 1970s, many in Spanish. Mexican Americans from this part of Texas recount a variety of experiences since 1910, including the Mexican Revolution, Immigration, labor issues, ethnic relations, and other topics.