- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Mateo Camarillo oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in National City, California, 2016 June 28
- Contributor to Resource:
- Camarillo, Mateo, 1941- interviewee
Cline, David P., 1969- interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2016
- Subject:
- Chicano Federation of San Diego County
National Council of La Raza
Trabajadores de la Raza (Organization)
Chicano movement
Civil rights movements--California
Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights workers--California--Interviews
Discrimination in employment--California
Mexican Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration--California
United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, California, 37.25022, -119.75126
United States, California, San Diego County, National City, 32.67811, -117.0992 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Mateo R. Camarillo talks of his involvement in a range of civil rights campaigns in and around the San Diego area, since the 1960s, including fair housing, police-community tensions, collaboration and cooperation with city officials on these issues. He recalls racism in the south during his service years in Vietnam. Finally, he talks about his entrepreneurial work in recent years.
Recorded in National City, California, on June 28, 2016.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0140), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
Mateo Camarillo was born in 1941 in Tijuana, Mexico. His family moved to San Diego, CA when he was 10 years old where he attended school. While attending San Diego State University, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. After graduating from college in 1965, he volunteered to join the U.S. Army, and he served for two years in Europe. Upon returning to San Diego, he became a social worker. He formed the San Diego chapter of Trabajadores de la Raza and worked to establish bilingual pay programs. After serving as Executive Director of the Chicano Federation, in 1976 he went into private business development in several different fields including bilingual radio stations.
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0140
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
- Extent:
- 11 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (2:02:53) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0140
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
