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Title: Cynthia E. Orozco oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004028
Creator: Zavala, Adely
Contributor: Orozco, Cynthia
Topic: Feminism, Mexican American women, College student newspapers and periodicals, Education
Dates: 1976-05-08
1990-05-08
2021-02-26
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral History of Cynthia E. Orozco conducted by Adely Zavala on February 26, 2021. Cynthia briefly discusses her family and background. She describes Chicano student life on UT campus during the late 70’s. Cynthia details her involvement with the Chicano Culture Committee and Center for Mexican American Studies. She speaks about her academic involvement on Campus and how it led to her attending the National Association of Chicano Studies conference in Colorado Springs. She describes her criticisms on sexism within Chicano studies and how she became a feminist. She founded a Chicana consciousness-raising group to talk about issues. She briefly speaks about her involvement with La Raza Unida and her experience as a Chicana within the history department.

Title: Irma Orozco oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004034
Creator: Wright, Matthew
Contributor: Orozco, Irma, 1956-
Topic: College television stations, College student newspapers and periodicals, College television stations, Public-access television
Dates: 1974
1977-06-01
2021-02-27
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Irma Orozco conducted by Matthew Wright on February 27, 2021. In the interview, Orozco talked about her time as a student attending the University of Texas at Austin from 1974 to 1977. She explained her experience in writing for the MAYO newspaper, El Desperator, and her time working as an editor in La Raza Unida newspaper, Para La Gente. Orozco also worked with various newscast television stations, working as a producer and newscaster for the KTBC and KVUE. Moreover, she produced her television program that focuses on Chicanos art and interviewed famous local Chicanos in Austin. Also, founded a student organization on campus called Chicanos Intersados Comunicaciones, which focuses on promoting Chicano's participation in media.

Title: Sylvia Orozco oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004042
Creator: Zavala, Adely, Brooke, Alison
Contributor: Orozco, Sylvia (Artist)
Topic: Art, College student newspapers and periodicals, Hispanic American women, Education, Mexican American art
Dates: 1954-11-02
2020-11-04
2021-02-27
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Sylvia Orozco conducted by Alison Brooke and Adely Zavala on February 27, 2021, describing her life and work in activism in the Chicano movement in Austin, Cuero, Kingsville, and Mexico City. She discusses her childhood in Cuero, Texas, and how her family influenced her later activism, her involvement in the Chicano movement at Texas A&I in the early 1970s as well as the Art department at that school. She also discusses her experience at the University of Texas at Austin in the art department as well as her activism work in the Chicano Movement, especially her involvement in organizations like; MAYO, CASA, LUChA, MAS, the Committee for Rural Democracy, the Raza Unida Party and Para La Gente newspaper. Later she discusses her experience in Mexico on the Becas Para Aztlan scholarship program and her studies at the San Carlos Academy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) as well as her involvement in the Art community in Mexico. Later she discusses her influences and creation of the Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin as well as the history of the Museum itself.

Title: Teresa Palomo Acosta oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004033
Creator: Stilwell, Jared
Contributor: Acosta, Teresa Palomo
Topic: Mexican American women, Art, College student newspapers and periodicals, Education, Feminism, Poetry
Dates: 1950
2021
2021-02-23
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Teresa Palomo Acosta conducted by Jared Stilwell on February 23, 2021. In the interview Teresa discusses her experiences growing up in McGregor, Texas before moving on to her experiences at UT as an activist and student. During her time at the University she was a member of the Mexican American Youth Organization, in which she was an editor of their newspaper, El Despertador. She was also involved in the Mexican American Culture Committee, which led to her hiring at the Texas Union. As well as being a Chicana activist she is also a author and poet, her first and most widespread poem being "My Mother Pieced Quilts."