- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Carol Uranga, July 21, 2016
- Creator:
- Wisely, Karen
Zapata, Joel
Uranga, Carol - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-21
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Uranga, Carol
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Ector County, Odessa, 31.84568, -102.36764
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Carol Uranga was born in 1949 in Marathon, Texas, but she was raised in Alpine, Texas. Growing up in Alpine and later in Pecos, she saw LULAC and the Brown Berets and Raza Unida Party protest and demand civil rights for Mexican Americans. Uranga graduated from central High School in Alpine in 1968. She moved to Pecos, Texas in 1974 when she married. In Pecos she became involved with women’s rights and LULAC, going to various civil rights conferences in other parts of the state. Indeed, Uranga helped organize what was perhaps the first women’s empowerment conference in West Texas, in Pecos in 1976 or 1977. Uranga moved to Odessa in the mid-1980s, where she helped re-start a LULAC chapter. She has since hosted radio shows centered on the Mexican American culture, she has helped start scholarship programs, local cultural events, including the nonprofit Hispanic Heritage of Odessa.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982454/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video recordings (1 hr., 5 min., 21 sec.) : sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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