- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Luis Cano, June 20, 2016
- Creator:
- Cano, Luis
Enriquez, Sandra
Rodriguez, Samantha - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-20
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Cano, Luis
- 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:
- Luis Cano was born in Corpus Christi, TX. After attending University of North Texas, he came to Houston and would become involved in the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida Party. As a teacher at Austin High School, he would develop one of the first Mexican American courses. This experience along with his awareness of his family's political history would lead him to dedicate his life to education efforts. Cano talks the Huelga School Movement, a false pairing plan that placed Mexican American and African American youth together and called it integration. He also speaks about co-founding the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans and developing some of its cultural and youth-oriented initiatives, including teatro, a library, a school for at-risk students, and gang prevention. Cano describes his experiences as one of the first lecturers for the UH Center for Mexcian American Studies.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987493/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video recordings (3 hr., 50 min., 28 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-luis-cano
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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