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Oral History Interview with Vicente Molina, July 8, 2015

Description: Interview with Vicente Molina, an educator from Laredo, Texas. In the interview, Molina discusses his childhood, military service, education, Chicano activism, Raza Unida Party, and his involvement with community organizations.
Date: July 8, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 29 seconds
Creator: Molina, Vicente; Robles, David; Krochmal, Max & Enriquez, Sandra
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Jesse Marvin Walker, July 8, 2015

Description: Interview with Jesse Marvin Walker, a bail bondsman from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Walker discusses his early life, attending segregated schools, the civil rights movement, college activism, and working at NASA.
Date: July 8, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 07 seconds
Creator: Walker, Jesse Marvin; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Wayne Sadberry, July 8, 2015

Description: Interview with Wayne Sadberry, a curator at the Brazos Valley African-American Museum from Prairie View, Texas. Sadberry discusses his early life, family background, and living under Jim Crow segregation. Sadberry also discusses his education at St. Emma Military Academy in Powhatan, Virginia and service in the Air Force. He also discusses working as a research assistant on a grant project to Antarctica while a graduate student at Texas A&M.
Date: July 8, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: Sadberry, Wayne & Moye, Todd
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Graciela Guzman Saenz, July 8, 2016

Description: Described her childhood in a working class Mexican American family, the obstacles she had to overcome to become lawyer, and her history working on both sides of the criminal justice system.
Date: July 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Saenz, Graciela Guzman; Grevious, Danielle & Bobadilla, Eladio
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Patricia Easley, July 8, 2016

Description: Ms. Easley was born and raised in Montgomery, Texas. She is the descendant of slaves from the area, and she has traced her lineage back to the arrival of her family in Texas. She attended segregated schools until ninth grade, graduated from Sam Houston State University, and began a successful corporate career in Houston. She returned to Montgomery where she retired. In her interview, Ms. Easley describes life and conditions in Montgomery when she was growing up, her families long history, the w… more
Date: July 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Easley, Patricia & May, Meredith
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Gene Collins, July 8, 2016

Description: Gene Collins was born and raised in Odessa, Texas. He attended Abilene Christian University, where he was a campus and community civil rights organizer. He completed his college education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Collins is now a local businessman and minister in Odessa, Texas. He has been president of the Odessa NAACP for over 15 years, and co-chair for environmental justice for the statewide NAACP. He helped lead several efforts toward environmental justice in and outside Odessa.
Date: July 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Collins, Gene & Wisely, Karen
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Nick Hernandez, July 7, 2016

Description: Nick Hernandez was born and raised in Odessa, Texas. He attended Milam Elementary, Dunbar Junior High, and Ector High School before obtaining his GED at Southwest State University in San Marcos, Texas while working within Job Core; Hernandez was only fourteen when he obtained his GED. As a teenager, he took an interest in cars, which eventually led him to study car body work, which he took and taught others. Influenced by Raul Guerrero, originally from Pecos and educated at the University of Te… more
Date: July 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Hernandez, Nick
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Kelton D. Sams on July 8, 2016.

Description: Kelton Sams Jr. was born in Galveston in 1943. He grew up on 43rd Street close to the Palm Terrace Housing Projects North of Broadway, mostly an African American area. He attended Central High School, the historic Black School. During spring break of junior year at Central, he led a sit-in at different lunch counters on the Island. This demonstration led to the desegregation of restaurants in Galveston. Following the sit-ins, Sams led other efforts on the Island including the desegregation of a… more
Date: July 8, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Sams, Kelton D.
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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