- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Gilbert Herrera, July 1, 2016
- Creator:
- Zapata, Joel
Herrera, Gilbert - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-01
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Herrera, Gilbert
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Lubbock County, Lubbock, 33.57786, -101.85517
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Gilbert Herrera was born in Lubbock, Texas. His father, a police officer, died on duty. Herrera was raised by a single mother. Having few economic opportunities, as a child he would break into homes to find food. As a teenager, Herrera joined a gang and eventually was jailed or imprisoned three times. He left prison a final time days before his mother died of cancer. During the early 1970s, Herrera began to lead and grow the West Texas Brown Berets. He organized several marches against police brutality and other social causes, including marches alongside African Americans, in and outside of Lubbock. Herrera is now a Baptist minister and leads a political action group in Lubbock named La Fuerza.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982442/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 video recordings (43 min., 8 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-gilbert-herrera
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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