- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Antonio Jimenez, June 10, 2016
- Creator:
- Zapata, Joel
Jimenez, Antonio - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-10
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Jimenez, Antonio
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Moore County, Dumas, 35.86559, -101.97324
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Antonio Jimenez was born in Mexico and moved to the U.S. during the 1980s. He worked at Cactus Feeders then Swift, a meat packing plant in Cactus, Texas. While at Swift, Jimenez felt that the United Food & Commercial Workers was not representing the meat packing plant’s workers well. Thus, he and others, inspired by Trini Gamez and Coco Medina, launched a local union that eventually initiated a strike that brought better conditions. He eventually left Swift and the independent local union when he felt his family was threatened by United Food & Commercial Workers operatives. He was sued by the United Food & Commercial Workers, but the suit was thrown out. Jimenez began a successful automotive body shop.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982473/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 video recordings (45 min., 54 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-antonio-jimenez
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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