Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Interview No. 480, Antonio Maldonado

Combined Interviews

Experiencias durante la Revolucion Mexicana.

Interview No. 546, Julio Limon S.

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; informacion sobre la Revolucion Mexicana; opinion sobre la devaluacion del peso y los indocumentados. (Este transcrito contiene terminos dialecticos usados en el sureste de Estados Unidos y han sido escritos tal y como la persona entrevistada los uso.)

Interview No. 547, Josefina Galván

Combined Interviews

La Revolucion Mexicana; su vida como senorita joven; su negocio; la Influenza Espanola de 1918.

Interview No. 502, Mercedes C. Orpinel

Combined Interviews

Biografia; su vida en Zacatecas; la Revolucion Mexicana; Villa, Madero; sus impresiones de El Paso y Juarez; la epoca de la Ley Seca en Estados Unidos; su opinion sobre los Chicanos.

Interview No. 422, Nelle S. Hatch

Combined Interviews

Biographical information; the founding of Colonia Juarez by the Mormons; the peon system in Northern Mexico; the Mexican Revolution, especially in the Casas Grandes region; Maximo Castillo; Felipe Angeles; Pancho Villa and his relationship with Lem Spilsbury, Mrs. Hatch's brother; Spilsbury and Dave Brown, Mormon scout for the Pershing Punitive expedition; intermarriage and other relations between Anglo and Mexican Mormons; Mexican students who attended the Mormon academy in Chihuahua; Colonia Juarez after the Revolution; the Mormon colonies today.

Interview No. 555, Sergio Gonzales, Jr.

Combined Interviews

Talks about his childhood in Del Rio, Texas; how he became County Judge; about the LULAC; the Ku Klux Klan; the years of the Depression; and relations between Anglos and Mexican Americans.

Interview No. 606, Alfredo Villegas

Combined Interviews

Su involucramiento en la Revolución Mexican;se casó con "La Adelita", quien fue una famosa soldadera o mujer soldado de la Revolución Mexicana; su vida en Del Río; peleando la descriminación contra los Mexico-Americanos.

Involvement in the Mexican Revolution; marriage to "La Adelita" famous soldadera, or, woman soldier; living in Del Rio, Texas; fighting discrimination against Mexican Americans.

Interview No. 341, Mamie T. Finan

Combined Interviews

Background; experiences as a colonist in Mexico; experiences during and after the Mexican Revolution; meeting Charles Lindberg and Luz Corral de Villa; life on ranches in Mexico; the Depression years; social customs; Good Neighbor organization; discrimination.

Interview No. 340, J. A. Bonnet

Combined Interviews

Recollections of the Mexican Revolution; growing up in Eagle Pass, Texas; smuggling activities in Eagle Pass-Piedras Negras; the Prohibition years; the Depression.

Interview No. 607, Alejandro Riojas

Combined Interviews

Datos biográficos. La Revolución; Eagle Pass a los principios del siglo XX: la influenza española de 1918; relaciones étnicas; la Ley Seca; la discriminación; relaciones entre Piedras Negras y Eagle Pass.

Biographical data; the Mexican Revolution; Eagle Pass in the early 1900s; the 1918 Spanish Flu; ethnic relations; Prohibition; discrimination; relations between Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass.

Interview No. 337, Roger Brandemuehl

Combined Interviews

"The Illegal Alien Problem."

Interview No. 310, Mr. Al Ratner, Mrs. Al Ratner

Combined Interviews

Biography; early businesses in El Paso; families who lived on Hawthorne Street in Sunset Heights; Mrs. Ratner's background; early El Paso families; school experiences; General Escobar; refugee families who moved into the Sunset Heights area during the Mexican Revolution; Anglo/Mexican relations; the word "Chicano"; Golden Years and decline of Sunset Heights; El Paso during World War II and going to Juarez to purchase rationed items; gambling and prostitution; development of El Paso's Jewish community; Italian POW camp in El Paso at Washington Park; other comments on the history of El Paso.

Interview No. 420, Bernardo Villegas

Combined Interviews

Biographical data; school years; College of Mines; Mexican Revolution; job experiences; the Depression; Prohibition; the word Chicano; opinions on the Chicano Movement and undocumented workers; old El Paso streetcars; the Chinese community in El Paso; entertainment in old El Paso; some old-time El Paso doctors.

Interview No. 428, Ygnacia Delgado

Combined Interviews

Datos Biograficos; los minerales de Cusihuiriachic; la entrevista Diaz-Taft en El Paso en 1909; las experiencias de su familia durante la Revolucion Mexicana y su vida como refugiados en El Paso; la epoca de la Ley Seca, la Depresion, y la persecucion religiosa en Mexico.

Interview No. 418, Angel Oaxaca

Combined Interviews

Datos biograficos; sus primeros trabajos en la ciudad de Chihuahua; su venida a El Paso; trabajos que tuvo en El Paso, incluyendo los que fueron en muebleria; la Depresion y la epoca de la Ley Seca; la palabra 'Chicano'.