- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Macario Ramirez on June 15, 2016.
- Creator:
- Enriquez, Sandra
Ramirez, Macario - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-15
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Ramirez, Macario
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Bexar County, San Antonio, 29.42412, -98.49363
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Macario Ramirez was born in 1937 in San Antonio. His family were migrant farm workers and traveled to the Midwest every year. He was in the military from 1956-59. Upon his return from the war, he gets involved in War on Poverty programs. Mr. Ramirez worked in Labor Training Programs in San Antonio, which eventually leads him to move to D.C. and work with a Man Power Training Program through the Department of Labor. He arrives in Houston and founded Casa Ramirez, a space that celebrate and provides culture and folklore to the Mexican American community of Houston.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987485/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 video recordings (1 hr., 17 min., 10 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-macario-ramirez
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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