- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Abel Bosquez, June 8, 2016
- Creator:
- Bosquez, Abel
Wisely, Karen
Zapata, Joel - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-08
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights
Labor unions - People:
- Bosquez, Abel
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Potter County, Amarillo, 35.222, -101.8313
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Basquez was raised in the Panhandle and joined the Marines as a young man. Upon returning, the settled in Amarillo and eventually obtained a job at Pantex. At Pantex, he became invovled with Union organizating and evetnually became an organizer lobbying in Washington DC. From there, he began joining other ogranizations such as LULAC to raise scolarship money as well as to promote voter regestration. He ran for State Representative in Amarillo three times.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982503/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 video recordings (53 min., 26 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-abel-bosquez
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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