Rio Grande Valley Images and Interviews and Recipients of the Veteran's Upward Bound Award
Title:
Rio Grande Valley Images and Interviews and Recipients of the Veteran's Upward Bound Award
Description:
Compilation: A video showing people, and infrastructure of Brownsville with the song \My Little Town\ playing on the background. Footage of photographs, postcards, maps of the Rio Grande Valley area which depict people and infrastructure in the early twentieth century. The video includes interviews with José Mendoza López and Américo Paredes, and footage of other noteable figures of the Rio Grande Valley such as Jovita Gonzalez. The second portion of the video contains interviews with recipients of the Veteran's Upward Bound Scholarship.
Creator/Contributor:
Medrano, Manuel, 1949- (collector), Flores, Maricela (speaker), Águilar, Johnny (videographer), Camargo, Ricardo (videographer), Martinez, Norberto (videographer), Gonzalez, Juan Miguel (photography), and Medrano, Manuel, 1949- (producer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2005-11-01
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
Mexican Americans, Texas--Social conditions, Mexican American education, Mexican American women, Mexicano americanos, Texas--Condiciones sociales, Mexicano americanos - Educación, and Mujeres mexicano americanas
Place Name:
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, United States of America and Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
General Note:
Assigned production number 277. The case label reads 277_Medrano Teaching Award / Veteran's Award, but the award that is documented is the Veteran's Upward Bound Scholarship. Duration of content within the file is 1 hour, 5 minutes, 43 seconds. All intellectual property rights are retained by the legal copyright holders. The University of Texas at Austin does not hold the copyright to the content of this file. Formal permission to reuse or republish this content must be obtained from the copyright holder. Material copyrighted to Dr. Manuel F. Medrano and The University of Texas at Brownsville. The assets of UT Brownsville are now held by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
Origin Note:
Los del Valle oral history recordings transferred from The University of Texas at Brownsville to The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Digitized with funds from the Latin American Materials Project (LAMP), Center for Research Libraries.