- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016
- Creator:
- Caviel, Billie
Wisely, Karen - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-30
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Caviel, Billie
- 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:
- Billie Caviel was raised in East Texas, attending all African American Schools. She attended university and pharmacy school at Texas Southern University in Houston. Once graduating, Caviel and her husband, who was also a pharmacist, moved to Lubbock, Texas to work for a Jewish pharmacist because no one else would give them jobs in the state because they were African American. Caviel and her husband later founded their own pharmacy, which they kept open for forty-nine years. Caviel also served as a Lubbock ISD school board member for a number of years during the early 1990s.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982460/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 video recordings (42 min., 30 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-billie-caviel
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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