Co-founder of Gilberto Rodriguez and the Blue Notes, with his cousin, Gregorio Pedroza, they discuss history of their family, Tejano music, and the band.
Oral History Office, University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio., San Antonio, Texas
“Soul food,” Texas Folklife Festival chef Robert Dawson explains, originated as survival food for the desperately poor. Ingredients include...
Agricultural laborers--United States--Labor unions--History.; Migrant agricultural laborers--Labor unions--United States.; United Farm Workers of America--Officials and employees.; Labor leaders--United States.; Women labor leaders--United States.;...
Flores grew up in a Texas migrant worker family in Atascosa County. She graduated Fox Tech High School in San Antonio. After working in a civil service job for the Army, she earned an undergraduate degree in sociology from St. Mary's University and...
San Antonio (Tex.)--Race relations--History.; Social service--United States--Societies, etc.; Social workers, Black--Texas--San Antonio.;
Retired social worker and community activist. The first African American professional hired at the San Antonio State Hospital (1965). Ms. Austin gained national recognition in 1984 when she received the Social Worker of the Year award for her...
San Antonio (Tex.)--Race relations--History.; Social service--United States--Societies, etc.; Social workers, Black--Texas--San Antonio.; African Americans--Interviews.
Retired social worker and community activist. The first African American professional hired at the San Antonio State Hospital (1965). Ms. Austin gained national recognition in 1984 when she received the Social Worker of the Year award for her...
United States. Army Nurse Corps.; Women and the military--United States.; Military nursing; Women--San Antonio (Tex.)--Interviews;
Nurse; Retired Brigadier General, Army. Only the second woman to become a general officer in the Army’s history; the first Texas woman to attain the status of brigadier general; inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame; Instrumental in...
United States. Army Nurse Corps.; Women and the military--United States.; Military nursing; Women--San Antonio (Tex.)--Interviews;
Nurse; Retired Brigadier General, Army. Only the second woman to become a general officer in the Army’s history; the first Texas woman to attain the status of brigadier general; inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame; Instrumental in...
Oral History Office, University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio..
Nacogdoches County residents Baker Denman and Ross Pantalion operated a grist mill at the Texas Folklife Festival, grinding corn as had been done for decades in...
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Personal narratives.;
Pantzer was born in a suburb of Berlin, Germany in 1911, but immigrated to New York in 1929. He first worked for International Telegraph and Telephone as a customer service representative and then opened a restaurant, Gus, in the IT&T...