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Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016

Description: Billie Caviel was raised in East Texas, attending all African American Schools. She attended university and pharmacy school at Texas Southern University in Houston. Once graduating, Caviel and her husband, who was also a pharmacist, moved to Lubbock, Texas to work for a Jewish pharmacist because no one else would give them jobs in the state because they were African American. Caviel and her husband later founded their own pharmacy, which they kept open for forty-nine years. Caviel also served a… more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 42 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Caviel, Billie & Wisely, Karen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Carlos Richardson on June 30, 2016.

Description: Richardson discusses his personal history as an African-American in San Antonio, Texas, learning about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Austin, and creating a branch in San Antonio.
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Arionus, Steve; Sinta, Vinicio & Richardson, Carlos
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Christina Morales on June 30, 2016.

Description: Christina Morales was born in the East End, a Mexican-American enclave in Houston, TX. As the granddaughter of Felix H. Morales and Angela Morales, she grew up in the Morales Funeral Home and became the director at the young age of twenty-three. Morales discusses the many efforts of her grandparents to provide social services for the Latina/o community. She speaks about how her grandmother was dedicated to philanthropy and how she has become involved in education campaigns through the Morales f… more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 53 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Morales, Christina
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Guadalupe Quintanilla on June 30, 2016.

Description: Guadalupe Quintanilla was born in Ojinaga,Chihuahua Mexico. For most of her childhood, she moved around to different states in Mexico as she lived with her paternal grandparents. During her childhood, Dr. Quintanilla did not receive any formal schooling; her grandparents, however, taught her how to read and write. When her grandfather became ill, she moved to Brownsville to live with her father. Although her father enrolled her in school, she dropped out shortly because she felt discriminated a… more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Quintanilla , Guadalupe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Irene Favila, June 30, 2016

Description: Irene Favila was raised in Lockney, Texas. As a child and teenager, Favila’s family would migrate to Kansas and Colorado during the summers to work in agricultural fields. After graduating from high school, Favila did not attend college—being discouraged by school officials—and entered the workforce. She then entered court reporting school in Plainview, Texas and worked as a court reporter in Amarillo, Texas—perhaps becoming the first Mexican American court reporter in the Texas Panhandle. Favi… more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 2 hours 18 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Favila, Irene & Zapata, Joel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with John Nash, George Elmore, and Claretta Allen, June 30, 2015

Description: Interview with John Nash, George Elmore, and Claretta Allen, labor activists from Kilgore, Texas. In the interview, Nash, Elmore, and Allen discuss discrimination at the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, the Kilgore community, and labor organizing and unions in East Texas.
Date: June 30, 2015
Duration: 1 hour 48 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Nash, John; Elmore, George; Allen, Claretta; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Lela Simmons, June 30, 2016

Description: Ms. Simmons was born and raised in Lufkin, Texas. She grew up in segregated Lufkin and graduated from Dunbar High School. She then became a nurse at Woodland Heights hospital, married, became a mother, and remained civically active. Ms. Simmons described growing up in segregated Lufkin, her experiences in elementary and high school, discrimination she experienced on the job at the hospital, black businesses in Lufkin, a sit-in at Lufkin's Dairy Queen, and her son's experience integrating at Luf… more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Howard, Jasmin; May, Meredith & Simmons, Lela
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Peter Vallecillo on June 30, 2016.

Description: Mr. Vallecillo was raised in the Rio Grande Valley by Mexican immigrant parents. In his youth, he quickly became aware of the discriminatory attitudes towards Mexican-Americans in communities like Harlingen. Mr. Vallecillo worked in the Valley as a school teacher and coach for several years after college. As years went on, he became more directly involved in activism, working with the Texas Rural Legal Aid and eventually joining the GI Forum and most recently, founding the Southwest Institute o… more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Sinta, Vinicio & Vallecillo, Peter
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Richard E. Reyes on June 30, 2016.

Description: Richard E. Reyes was born in 1951 and grew-up in the Northside of Houston. As a young adult, he would become heavily involved in the arts and would create the Pancho Claus play about a Mexican Santa Claus donned in a Zoot Suit that provides toys for barrio youth. Reyes also served as the director of Talento Bilinque de Houston, a bilingual arts center that has played a critical role in providing creative outlets for Latina/o youth. He discusses his involvement in gang prevention efforts, addres… more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Reyes, Richard E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Rita Wiltz, July 30, 2016

Description: Mrs. Wiltz grew up in the community of Tamina which was founded as a Freedmen's Settlement in the late 1800s. She described some history, race relations, gentrification, infrastructure inequality and changes over time in Tamina. Wiltz currently runs multiple community organizations that provide services to residents in Tamina and the surrounding areas. Wiltz runs a community center in Tamina and the non-profit organization Children's Books on Wheels.
Date: July 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: May, Meredith; Howard, Jasmin & Wiltz, Rita
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Rubye Jones and Julia Williams, June 30, 2015

Description: Interview with Rubye Jones and Julia Williams, from Marshall, Texas. In the interview, Jones and Williams discuss their family backgrounds, higher education at Bishop and Wiley Colleges, experiences with racial discrimination, and their involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Jones's uncle Romeo Williams, was a prominent African-American civil rights attorney in Marshall who was killed in an accident in 1960.
Date: June 30, 2015
Duration: 2 hours 6 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Jones, Rubye; Williams, Julia; Bynum, Katherine & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Sam Monroe, June 30, 2016

Description: Mr. Monroe discussed his upbringing in a segregated Port Arthur, his father's work to desegregate the city and the local college, and his own work to improve the conditions of minorities and disadvantaged students.
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds
Creator: Grevious, Danielle; Bobadilla, Eladio & Monroe, Sam
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Victor Hernandez, June 30, 2016

Description: Victor Hernandez was born in the Chamizal area of El Paso, Texas. Once the area was bought by the federal government to build the Chamizal National Monument, his family moved the the Lower Valley of El Paso, Texas. While in high school, he was part of the ROTC. Hernandez was salsa part of the ROTC at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he graduated from. Hernandez then went to law school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He stayed in Lubbock and served in the National Guard—with which … more
Date: June 30, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Hernandez, Victor
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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Oral History Interview with Windy Goodloe, July 30, 2016

Description: Windy Goodloe is a staff member at the museum of the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery Association. Goodloe grew up in Brackettville, spending most of her early life with her grandparents. She recalled being usually one of very few African American students in the local schools, and in particular her relationship with Mexican American students. Goodloe attended Spellman College in Atlanta, but did not complete her degree; after several years in Atlanta, she returned to Brackettville to care for he… more
Date: July 30, 2016
Duration: 57 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Wall, James & Goodlow, Wendy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
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