- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Nancy Vera, July 6, 2016
- Creator:
- Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Wall, James
Vera, Nancy - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-06
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Vera, Nancy
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Nueces County, Corpus Christi, 27.80058, -97.39638
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Nancy Vera received her degrees from Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, including her Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership. Vera specializes in working with at-risk students who are in danger of dropping out and live in poverty. Vera is President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council No. 4444. She pioneered “Operation Right Track” a public campaign to raise awareness about gang violence, drug, and alcohol abuse. In her interview, she discussed her career as a union organizer/AFT president of Corpus Christi.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987556/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 9 recordings (1 hr., 59 min., 9 sec.) : sd., col.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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