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Interview – Armando Rendon, California author & publisher, Part 1
Armando Rendon is a former California journalist, chicano activist, novelist, essayist and of late, co-founder of a digital publisher, www.somosenescrito.com. Rendon spent the first 10 years of his life growing up in San Antonio’s westside, which serves as a setting for one of his novels. During the early to mid-1960s, Rendon would have a life-changing …
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Aurelio Montemayor – December 1968 Testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Aurelio Montemayor testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, San Antonio, Texas Date: December, 1968 (see also in this edition, Interview of Aurelio Montemayor) In mid-December, 1968, while the future of the 172 boycotting high school students at Edcouch Elsa, Texas remained in limbo, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission was holding hearings in San Antonio. …
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Interview – July, 2018: Aurelio Montemayor, Activist, Educator, Part 2
Montemayor discusses the founding of what is probably the first successful Chicano/a college in the country; how Colejio Jacinto Trevino, Mercedes, Texas, came about and, ultimately, reasons for its demise. The Colejio gained full-throated accreditation support from Antioch College. Importantly, Montemayor identifies key Chicano and Chicana intellectuals of the time who sacrificed their own life …
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Interview – Aurelio Montemayor, Activist, Educator, Part 1
Aurelio Montemayor began his teaching career at the San Felipe Independent School District (since having merged with the Del Rio ISD); (search for interview of Blandina Cardenas in February 2021 edition of IberoAztlan) in the late 1960s. In 1968, Montemayor became a county director of the VISTA program (Volunteers in Service to America). Due in …
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2018 Interview – Nacho Perez Part 4
Chuy: Today is the second interview of Nacho Perez in San Antonio. Nacho, earlier today we attended at Our Lady of the Lake a meeting of a group that is organizing the 50th Year Anniversary of the U. S. Civil Rights hearings in San Antonio in–I believe that was–November of 1968? Nacho: Yeah. Chuy: Which …
Interview – Nacho Perez Part 3
Chuy: Gil Murillo tells me that at the time he was a social worker in San Antonio. He is a liberal social worker and that Gonzalo Barrientos in Austin is working with the OEO, that’s where all these guys come from, from the Johnson Great Society Programs and that some Democratic firm has a huge …
2018 Interview – Nacho Perez Part 2
Nacho: (E. Nelson) Stopped the train. Stopped the melons. Y se hizo un borlote. And a national organizing effort started. So, then comes the critical point which to this day I think was a mistake but, you know, I wasn’t in charge, I was twenty-one. So, the guys who were working in the fields, they …
2018 Interview – Nacho Perez Part 1
Interview of Nacho Perez The Chicana/o Legacy Project seeks to record and archive the voices of avant-garde activists of the Chicano/Chicana Movement of the mid to late 1960s to mid to late 1970s. Previous inverviews include Rosie Castro, Bamby Cardenas, Rebecca Flores (Harrington), Mario Compean and Aurelio Montemayor. Ignacio (Nacho) Perez, Chicano activist during the …
Leo Montalvo
Leo Montalvo served as city commissioner for the City of McAllen, Texas for 20 years before being elected the first Mexican American mayor of that City. In this interview he recalls his family immigrating to Texas when he was a young boy and not knowing a lick of English. Montalvo would be placed in the …
