- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Antonio Orendain, June 22, 2015
- Creator:
- Enriquez, Sandra
Orendain, Antonio - Date of Original:
- 2015-06-22
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Orendain, Antonio
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Hidalgo County, McAllen, 26.20341, -98.23001
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Interview with Antonio Orendain, civil rights activist and founder of the Texas Farm Workers Union (TFWU), from McAllen, Texas. In the interview, Orendain discusses his childhood and family background, working with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta and the National Farm Workers Association in California, migrant farm workers, founding the TFWU, and his long career as a labor activist.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1040198/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 video recordings (2 hr., 47 min., 40 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/126/interview-with-antonio-orendain
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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