- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Maria Strong, June 27, 2016
- Creator:
- Zapata, Joel
Strong, Maria - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-27
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Strong, Maria
- 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:
- Maria Strong was born in Nebraska but grew up between Lubbock and California’s Coachella Valley. As a teenager, she left school and became the sole breadwinner for her household made of her parents and siblings. After obtaining her GED and working various jobs, she began to attend Texas Tech University, where she obtained both her undergraduate and graduate degrees. She has worked with migrant farm workers (her family was once a migrant family), as a an adviser at South Plains College, and has participated in various community organizations.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982486/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video recordings (1 hr., 10 min., 3 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-maria-strong
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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