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Title: Alice Embree oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003945_002
Creator: Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth)
Contributor: Embree, Alice
Topic: College integration, Civil rights, Underground newspapers
Dates: 2017-11-08
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Alice Embree conducted by UT History Department's Dr. Laurie Green on September 3, 2018. Embree discusses growing up in Austin, segregation in the South, the integration of UT in the 1960s, and white supremacy. She describes her student activism, including membership the first wave of Students for a Democratic Society and the demonstration at Kinsolving Hall in 1963, which contributed to the integration of UT dorms. Additionally, the interview covers her involvement as a founding member of The Rag, including how the women's liberation movement affected the underground newspaper, and close working relationships between various Austin activist groups and communities during her time as an activist.

Title: Alice Embree oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003945_001
Creator: Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth)
Contributor: Embree, Alice
Topic: College integration, Civil rights, Underground newspapers
Dates: 2017-11-08
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Alice Embree conducted by UT History Department's Dr. Laurie Green on September 3, 2018. Embree discusses growing up in Austin, segregation in the South, the integration of UT in the 1960s, and white supremacy. She describes her student activism, including membership the first wave of Students for a Democratic Society and the demonstration at Kinsolving Hall in 1963, which contributed to the integration of UT dorms. Additionally, the interview covers her involvement as a founding member of The Rag, including how the women's liberation movement affected the underground newspaper, and close working relationships between various Austin activist groups and communities during her time as an activist.

Title: Alice Embree oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003945
Creator: Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth)
Contributor: Embree, Alice
Topic: College integration, Civil rights, Underground newspapers
Dates: 2017-11-08
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Alice Embree conducted by UT History Department's Dr. Laurie Green on September 3, 2018. Embree discusses growing up in Austin, segregation in the South, the integration of UT in the 1960s, and white supremacy. She describes her student activism, including membership the first wave of Students for a Democratic Society and the demonstration at Kinsolving Hall in 1963, which contributed to the integration of UT dorms. Additionally, the interview covers her involvement as a founding member of The Rag, including how the women's liberation movement affected the underground newspaper, and close working relationships between various Austin activist groups and communities during her time as an activist.

Title: Alyce Guynn oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003940
Creator: Perkins-Edge, Maeve
Contributor: Guynn, Alyce
Topic: Women--Health, Education, Childbirth at home
Dates: 1966
1976
2017-11-10
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Alyce Guynn conducted by Maeve Perkins-Edge on November 10, 2017. The interview is a discussion about Guynn' activism in Austin, especially concerning the womens health clinics and raising awareness about the home birth movement

Title: Barbara Hines oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003942
Creator: Ponthier, Ella
Contributor: Hines, Barbara, 1947-
Topic: Abortion, Abortion--Laws and legislation, Underground newspapers
Dates: 1947
1975
2017-11-02
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Barbara Hines conducted by Ella Ponthier on November 2, 2017. Hines discusses her involvement as a female activist during her years at the University of Texas-Austin. She was involved with the Women's Liberation Movement in Austin, the Rag, an alternative newspaper; the birth control center; and the abortion center.

Title: Brenda Malik oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004031
Creator: Koteras, Erica
Contributor: Malik, Brenda Gooden, 1951-
Topic: African Americans in radio broadcasting, Civil rights, Community activists, Public-access television
Dates: 2021-03-04
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Brenda Malik conducted by Erica Koteras on 3/04/2021. Brenda Mims-Malik was a civil rights activist who did most of her activism in radio and television. She did so by providing Black people a voice on local television. Mims-Malik was an anchor on multiple news stations, including KXAN, ACTV, and had multiple programs for the Black community such as Newscene and Jam City in the 70s and 80s. She would also produce yearly Black history month documentaries about the Black people that worked for Austin Energy, the primary electrical company in Austin. Brenda Malik was also a part of the NAACP and the Black Media Coalition, where she worked with them to produce programs like Jam City to depict the Black youth in Austin and give them outlets for their creative sides.

Title: Carylon (CT) Tyler oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-000671
Creator: Forth, Shine, Dey, Amber
Contributor: Tyler, Carylon (CT)
Topic: African Americans--Education, Vietnam War (1961-1975), Black power, Civil rights, Dormitories, Gay liberation movement
Dates: 1979-08
2019-03
2019-03-27
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral History of Carylon (CT) Tyler conducted by Shianne Forth and Amber Dey on March 27, 2019. Subjects of discussion included Austin, San Francisco, Smithville, Bergstrom Air Force Base, Architecture, Kinsolving Dormitory, Gay Student Movement, Gay Rights Movement, Civil Rights Movement, Pearl Street Warehouse, and Civil Rights Lawsuit.

Title: Cynthia Valadez oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003929_001
Creator: Casas, Marissa
Contributor: Valadez, Cynthia
Topic: Civil rights, Mexican American women, Community activists
Dates: 1970
2017
2017-11-21
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Cynthia Valadez conducted by Marissa Casas on November 12, 2017 and November 21, 2017. Cynthia Valadez describes her family background and early activism in high school in Mission, Texas and then in Dallas, Texas leading up to the start of her student activism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. She discusses her part in the Chicano Movement in Austin, Texas through her activism as a student in organizations such as the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida party. Cynthia Valadez also shares her personal connection as a student to the local East Austin community and the impact this had on her views of community issues as well as eliminating boundaries between campus and community. She also discusses women in the Chicano Movement and her personal experience as a woman in the movement.

Title: Cynthia Valadez oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003929_005
Creator: Casas, Marissa
Contributor: Valadez, Cynthia
Topic: Civil rights, Mexican American women, Community activists
Dates: 1970
2017
2017-11-21
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Cynthia Valadez conducted by Marissa Casas on November 12, 2017 and November 21, 2017. Cynthia Valadez describes her family background and early activism in high school in Mission, Texas and then in Dallas, Texas leading up to the start of her student activism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. She discusses her part in the Chicano Movement in Austin, Texas through her activism as a student in organizations such as the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida party. Cynthia Valadez also shares her personal connection as a student to the local East Austin community and the impact this had on her views of community issues as well as eliminating boundaries between campus and community. She also discusses women in the Chicano Movement and her personal experience as a woman in the movement.

Title: Cynthia Valadez oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003929_004
Creator: Casas, Marissa
Contributor: Valadez, Cynthia
Topic: Civil rights, Mexican American women, Community activists
Dates: 1970
2017
2017-11-21
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Cynthia Valadez conducted by Marissa Casas on November 12, 2017 and November 21, 2017. Cynthia Valadez describes her family background and early activism in high school in Mission, Texas and then in Dallas, Texas leading up to the start of her student activism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. She discusses her part in the Chicano Movement in Austin, Texas through her activism as a student in organizations such as the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida party. Cynthia Valadez also shares her personal connection as a student to the local East Austin community and the impact this had on her views of community issues as well as eliminating boundaries between campus and community. She also discusses women in the Chicano Movement and her personal experience as a woman in the movement.

Title: Cynthia Valadez oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003929_003
Creator: Casas, Marissa
Contributor: Valadez, Cynthia
Topic: Civil rights, Mexican American women, Community activists
Dates: 1970
2017
2017-11-21
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Cynthia Valadez conducted by Marissa Casas on November 12, 2017 and November 21, 2017. Cynthia Valadez describes her family background and early activism in high school in Mission, Texas and then in Dallas, Texas leading up to the start of her student activism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. She discusses her part in the Chicano Movement in Austin, Texas through her activism as a student in organizations such as the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida party. Cynthia Valadez also shares her personal connection as a student to the local East Austin community and the impact this had on her views of community issues as well as eliminating boundaries between campus and community. She also discusses women in the Chicano Movement and her personal experience as a woman in the movement.

Title: Cynthia Valadez oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003929_002
Creator: Casas, Marissa
Contributor: Valadez, Cynthia
Topic: Civil rights, Mexican American women, Community activists
Dates: 1970
2017
2017-11-21
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Cynthia Valadez conducted by Marissa Casas on November 12, 2017 and November 21, 2017. Cynthia Valadez describes her family background and early activism in high school in Mission, Texas and then in Dallas, Texas leading up to the start of her student activism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. She discusses her part in the Chicano Movement in Austin, Texas through her activism as a student in organizations such as the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida party. Cynthia Valadez also shares her personal connection as a student to the local East Austin community and the impact this had on her views of community issues as well as eliminating boundaries between campus and community. She also discusses women in the Chicano Movement and her personal experience as a woman in the movement.

Title: Cynthia Valadez oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003929
Creator: Casas, Marissa
Contributor: Valadez, Cynthia
Topic: Civil rights, Mexican American women, Community activists
Dates: 1970
2017
2017-11-21
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Cynthia Valadez conducted by Marissa Casas on November 12, 2017 and November 21, 2017. Cynthia Valadez describes her family background and early activism in high school in Mission, Texas and then in Dallas, Texas leading up to the start of her student activism at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. She discusses her part in the Chicano Movement in Austin, Texas through her activism as a student in organizations such as the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida party. Cynthia Valadez also shares her personal connection as a student to the local East Austin community and the impact this had on her views of community issues as well as eliminating boundaries between campus and community. She also discusses women in the Chicano Movement and her personal experience as a woman in the movement.

Title: Deborah D. Tucker oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004039
Creator: Garrett, Sam, Farmer, Ciera
Contributor: Tucker, Debby
Topic: Feminism, Sexual abuse victims, Social justice
Dates: 2021-02-28
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Deborah D. Tucker conducted by Sam Garrett and Cierra Farmer on February 28, 2021. Tucker discusses her work to fight violence against women in Austin during the 70s and early 80s. This includes her work at the Austin Rape Crisis Center, the Austin Center for Battered Women, and the Texas Council on Family Violence. Specifically, she talks about the goals of these organizations, the methods they used to achieve these goals, and how the Austin community reacted to the anti-rape movement and women's liberation.

Title: Emma Lou Linn oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003930
Creator: Cromwell, Bethany
Contributor: Linn, Emma Lou
Topic: Teachers, Women legislators, Segregation
Dates: 1930
2017
1960
1975
2017-10-31
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Emma Lou Linn conducted by Bethany Cromwell on 10/31/2017. Linn speaks on her life from when she was born in the 1930's to her life in the present. She talks about being born in Rocksprings, Texas, her family's involvement in politics, and her family's different viewpoints on race. She covers her time going to the University of Texas and the University of Houston in the 1950's and the prejudices against anyone that wasn't white and/or identified as heterosexual, her time teaching young students with mental illnesses, her time on the Travis County Historic Commission board, her work in minority campaigns, and how she ran for office on the Austin City Council and won (remaining on from 1975-1977). She also speaks on her work in the Austin historic preservation movement. Her cat can be heard in the background from time to time and she speaks to it occassionally throughout.

Title: Erna R. Smith oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-000670
Creator: Bacher, Lauren, Soliday, Cynthia
Contributor: Smith, Erna R. (Journalist)
Topic: Underground newspapers, African Americans in radio broadcasting, African Americans--Education, Civil rights, Vietnam War (1961-1975), Education
Dates: 1971-08
1977-05-30
2015-12
2019-03-29
2019-03-29
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Erna Smith conducted by Lauren Bacher and Cynthia Soliday on March 29, 2019. In this recording, Erna Smith talks about her time as a student at the University of Texas in Austin from 1971- 1975 or 1976. She reflects on the personal connections she made, her journalism experience, other organizations she took part in, and the professors she had. Erna Smith also talks about her return to UT as a lecturer in journalism and how she grew from the experiences she had as a student here.

Title: Glenn Scott oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003931
Creator: Cromwell, Bethany
Contributor: Scott, Glenn
Topic: Underground newspapers, Women--Health, Feminism
Dates: 1948
2017
2017-11-09
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Glenn Scott conducted by Bethany Cromwell on 11/09/2017. Glenn Scott speaks on her life from 1948 to the present, highlighting the years between 1968-1984. Scott was born in Fort Worth, Texas and spent most of her life living in and around that area. She currently resides in Austin, Texas. She speaks on the Vietnam War draft and the death of her boyfriend during the Vietnam War and how that led to her political awakening. She applied for an internship within the United States Information Agency where she experienced her second political awakening. Upon moving to Austin, she joined forces with The Rag newspaper and began writing for and producing The Rag between 1974-1977. Scott is a socialist feminist and was heavily involved in writing for the farm worker unions and farm worker organizations. She speaks on her work with the Bread and Roses School for Socialist Education. Glenn Scott ends on her main topics in 1984 with her work in the Democratic Socialists of America and the New American Movement.

Title: Interview with Dr. Alex Tan
Identifier: camh-dob-012390
Creator: Daniels, George L., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Tan, Alexis S.
Topic: Journalism, Race discrimination, Islamophobia, Education
Dates: 6/4/20
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Dr. Alex Tan is a tenured professor and founding director of the Edward R. Murrow School (now College) of Communication at Washington State University, WSU. He is the inaugural Faculty Diversity Fellow at WSU in the Office of the Provost and the Division of Student Affairs, Equity and Diversity. He is a co-director of the Excellence in Science and Engineering Center at WSU, which is funded by a five-year $3.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in science and engineering. Tan joined WSU in 1986 and has served it for three decades. In 1996-1997 Tan, served as the president of AEJMC. Tan’s research and teaching focuses are on communication interventions to reduce and control prejudices. He teaches Stereotypes in the Media at the undergraduate level and Quantitative Research Methods at the graduate level. Tan earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural journalism from the University of the Philippines and his master’s degree in the same from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his doctorate there in mass comm. Prior to his arrival at WSU, Tan was a professor and the director of graduate studies in mass comm at Texas Tech University.

Title: Interview with Dr. Christina Azocar
Identifier: camh-dob-012391
Creator: Daniels, George L., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Azocar, Cristina
Topic: Journalism, Mass media and minorities, Education
Dates: 9/3/20
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Cristina Azocar is an associate professor and chair of the department of journalism at San Francisco State University. Azocar is an expert on representation of race and diversity in the media, ethnic media, and the social and psychological effects of mass media. She is a citizen of the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe and is the author of News Media and the Indigenous Fight for Federal Recognition at Lexington Books. Dr. Azocar served as a past president of the Native American Journalists Association, directed the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism for 10 years, was a former editor of American Indian Issues for the Media Diversity Forum, and was an inaugural board member of the Women’s Media Center. She was the first recipient of AEJMC’s Dr. Paula M. Poindexter Research Grant. Azocar holds a Ph.D. in communication studies, from the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. This interview focuses on Dr. Azocar’s life and efforts she made to draw attention to the lack of representation of Native American in journalism. She emphasizes the value of mentorship in universities and steps that AEJMC and universities take and can improve upon, to encourage high school students and beyond to come into the field. She also talks about standards of diversity and inclusion for each member institution that seeks accreditation from AEJMC.

Title: Interview with Dr. Edward Trayes
Identifier: camh-dob-012389
Creator: Daniels, George L., Turner, Karen M., Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Contributor: Trayes, Edward J. (Edward John)
Topic: Journalism, African Americans and mass media, Education
Dates: 9/17/20
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Ed Trayes is a professor emeritus of journalism at Temple University. Trayes joined the faculty in l967 and has taught a wide range of courses, including news editing, photography, media management, communication research, publication graphics and design, and electronic information gathering. He co-founded and has headed the MA and PhD. in communications programs within the School of Media and Communication. He is the first recipient of the Freedom Forum Journalism Teacher of the Year Award. He also has been honored as a Temple University Great Teacher. Trayes is co-founder and director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Editing and Minority Intern Program (1967 to present). This effort seeks to upgrade the editing talent pool nationwide. Participating newspapers include The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal and Newsday. Trayes also is the founding editor of Mass Communication Review, an international journal he edited from 1972 to 1986. Trayes has worked with newspapers, broadcast operations, corporations and not-for-profit organizations across the U.S. and in Mexico, Central America and South America. Trayes is also a founding member of the School of Media and Communication faculty.

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