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Title: Adela Mancias oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004040
Creator: Walje, Ethan
Contributor: Mancias, Adela, 1953-
Topic: Zoning law, Hispanic American women, Social justice
Dates: 1974, 1990-12-31, 2021-02-27
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Adela Mancias conducted by Ethan Walje on February 27, 2021. Adela Mancias recounts her experiences growing up in Texas as a Mexican-American and how it led to her interest in activism. She discusses her work with the Raza Unida Party and Brown Berets in Austin, Texas, including her participation in protests against the Austin Boat Club races and the Ku Klux Klan march in Austin on February 19, 1983. She also discusses her work in organizing resistance to unfair zoning laws in East Austin and talks about her later documentary and radio work.

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: Suzette Cullen oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004038
Creator: Farmer, Ciera, Garrett, Sam
Contributor: Cullen, Suzette, 1952-
Topic: Sexual abuse victims, Community health services, Feminism, Lesbians
Dates: 1969, 2021, 2021-02-27
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Suzette Cullen conducted by Ciera Farmer and Sam Garrett on Saturday February 27, 2021. Suzette describes her time at UT Austin from 1969-71 and her introduction to activism through her volunteer work at the Austin State Hospital. Additionally, she speaks about her work at the Austin Rape Crisis Center, including her personal reasons of support, and at the People’s Community Clinic. Briefly she also worked with the Fly By Night Press during a semester spent at Austin Community College. Some quiet background sounds may be heard occasionally throughout as the interview took place over a zoom call.

Title: Suzette Cullen oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004038_0001
Creator: Farmer, Ciera, Garrett, Sam
Contributor: Cullen, Suzette, 1952-
Topic: Sexual abuse victims, Community health services, Feminism, Lesbians
Dates: 1969, 2021, 2021-02-27
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Suzette Cullen conducted by Ciera Farmer and Sam Garrett on Saturday February 27, 2021. Suzette describes her time at UT Austin from 1969-71 and her introduction to activism through her volunteer work at the Austin State Hospital. Additionally, she speaks about her work at the Austin Rape Crisis Center, including her personal reasons of support, and at the People’s Community Clinic. Briefly she also worked with the Fly By Night Press during a semester spent at Austin Community College. Some quiet background sounds may be heard occasionally throughout as the interview took place over a zoom call.

Title: Suzette Cullen oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004038_0002
Creator: Farmer, Ciera, Garrett, Sam
Contributor: Cullen, Suzette, 1952-
Topic: Sexual abuse victims, Community health services, Feminism, Lesbians
Dates: 1969, 2021, 2021-02-27
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Suzette Cullen conducted by Ciera Farmer and Sam Garrett on Saturday February 27, 2021. Suzette describes her time at UT Austin from 1969-71 and her introduction to activism through her volunteer work at the Austin State Hospital. Additionally, she speaks about her work at the Austin Rape Crisis Center, including her personal reasons of support, and at the People’s Community Clinic. Briefly she also worked with the Fly By Night Press during a semester spent at Austin Community College. Some quiet background sounds may be heard occasionally throughout as the interview took place over a zoom call.

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.