- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Gloria Rubac on June 6, 2016.
- Creator:
- Enriquez, Sandra
Rodriguez, Samantha
Rubac, Gloria - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-06
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Rubac, Gloria
- 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:
- Gloria Rubac was born in Oklahoma, TX. in 1946. After witnessing racial discrimination in Oklahoma throughout her youth, Rubac traveled to Houston in 1968 to teach in the Northforest School District. She became involved in the John Brown Revolutionary League, a radical white youth organization that was a part of a Rainbow Coalition with the People's Party II. Wanting to become more active in supporting Brown and Black organizations, Rubac joined the Huelga School movement as a teacher and protestor. She talks about her succeeding involvement in supporting the Chicana/o Moratorium, the Mexican American Youth Organization, the People's Party II, the Worker's World, and the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, which she has dedicated her life to. Rubac also discusses inter-racial solidarity as well as discrimination in Houston, particularly police brutality as it relates to the assassination of Carl Hampton, the Jose Campos Torres incident, and the Moody Park Rebellion.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987480/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 video recordings (1 hr., 33 min., 6 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-gloria-rubac
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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