- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Bryan Parras.
- Creator:
- Enriquez, Sandra
Rodriguez, Samantha
Parras, Bryan - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-24
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Parras, Bryan
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Harris County, Houston, 29.76328, -95.36327
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Bryan Parras was born in 1977 in the East End, a Mexican-American enclave in Houston, TX. His parents, Jesusa Moreno and Juan Parras, played influential roles in his political consciousness. He talks about discrimination and how he has became involved in Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say as well as the immigrant rights movement. Parras also discusses how the creation of Cesar E. Chavez High School right near the oil refineries in Houston sparked his involvement in the environmental justice movement. He provides an in-depth discussion of how the environmental justice movement has taken him all over the world, particularly in Canada and South American, and how through his organization, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, he has forged relations with indigenous communities as well as African-American communities.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987478/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 video recordings (2 hr., 17 min., 59 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-bryan-parras
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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