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Oral History Interview with Victor Hernandez, June 30, 2016

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: Video

Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

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Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016

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