- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Henry Calyen, July 7, 2016
- Creator:
- Calyen, Henry
Howard, Jasmin - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-06
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Calyen, Henry
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Montgomery County, Conroe, 30.31188, -95.45605
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Mr. Calyen was born and raised in Conroe, Texas. He lived in a segregated neighborhood and attended Booker T. Washington schools until 1966, when he participated in "freedom of choice" and attended Conroe High School. While in high school, he participated in three marches in 1964 and 1965 to protest continued discrimination. He graduated in 1968 and enrolled in the military. He spent a year in Vietnam and then moved to New York City, where he married and spent almost thirty years as a postal carrier. He then returned to Conroe where he has remained active in his community. Mr. Calyen described race relations in Conroe in the 50s and 60s, segregation and integration, the black community, the impact of the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, his experiences in New York as compared to Conroe, and community activism in Conroe since the 1990s.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth983319/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video recordings (1 hr., 56 min., 56 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-henry-calyen
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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