- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with David T. Lopez, June 27, 2016
- Creator:
- Enriquez, Sandra
Rodriguez, Samantha
Lopez, David T. - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-27
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Lopez, David T.
- 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:
- David T. Lopez was born in Laredo, TX. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he became involved as a reporter and editor for the Daily Texan and the Texas Ranger. His involvement in news reporting lead him to work for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, where he reported on Black and Brown efforts in school desegregation. Attracted by Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers movement, Lopez would participate in the strikes in the Rio Grande Valley and would report on the repressive tactics of the Texas Rangers as a plaintiff in the Medrano v. Allee lawsuit. He eventually got his law degree at South Texas College of Law in Houston and worked as a field representative for the AFL-CIO. Lopez discusses how he served on the HISD school board, the politics of the Huelga School Strike, how he was one of the first lecturers for the University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies, and police brutality.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987482/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 video recordings (2 hr., 36 min., 51 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-david-t-lopez
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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