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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: Alicia Jarry oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004032
Creator: Randall, Elise
Contributor: Jarry, Alicia McCullough, 1944-
Topic: Abortion, Community health services, Mental health services, Reproductive rights
Dates: 1944-04, 2021, 2021-02-28
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Alicia Jarry conducted by Elise Randall on February 28, 2021 about her involvement with the People's Community Clinic.

Title: Allison Nash oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004037
Creator: Dehri, Zara
Contributor: Nash, Allison, 1951-
Topic: Childbirth at home, Midwifery, Women--Health, Community health services
Dates: 1971-05-03, 1983-12-31, 2021-02-22, 2021-03-01
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Allison Nash conducted by Zara Dehri on February 22 and March 1, 2021. In this interview, Nash recounts her time as a midwife in Austin in the 1970s as part of A.L.M.A., or the Austin Lay Midwives Association. She mentions the social and financial aspects of why more and more women opted to have home births as opposed to in hospitals and clinics during the counterculture revolutions. Nash describes her experiences as a midwife, alongside other forms of activism such as anti-war protests, in specific detail.

Title: Allison Nash oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004037_0001
Creator: Dehri, Zara
Contributor: Nash, Allison, 1951-
Topic: Childbirth at home, Midwifery, Women--Health, Community health services
Dates: 1971-05-03, 1983-12-31, 2021-02-22, 2021-03-01
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Allison Nash conducted by Zara Dehri on February 22 and March 1, 2021. In this interview, Nash recounts her time as a midwife in Austin in the 1970s as part of A.L.M.A., or the Austin Lay Midwives Association. She mentions the social and financial aspects of why more and more women opted to have home births as opposed to in hospitals and clinics during the counterculture revolutions. Nash describes her experiences as a midwife, alongside other forms of activism such as anti-war protests, in specific detail.

Title: Allison Nash oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004037_0002
Creator: Dehri, Zara
Contributor: Nash, Allison, 1951-
Topic: Childbirth at home, Midwifery, Women--Health, Community health services
Dates: 1971-05-03, 1983-12-31, 2021-02-22, 2021-03-01
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Allison Nash conducted by Zara Dehri on February 22 and March 1, 2021. In this interview, Nash recounts her time as a midwife in Austin in the 1970s as part of A.L.M.A., or the Austin Lay Midwives Association. She mentions the social and financial aspects of why more and more women opted to have home births as opposed to in hospitals and clinics during the counterculture revolutions. Nash describes her experiences as a midwife, alongside other forms of activism such as anti-war protests, in specific detail.

Title: Arleen Lawson oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-000667
Creator: Marshall, Zoe, Bear, Serena
Contributor: Lawson, Arleen
Topic: Vietnam War (1961-1975), African Americans--Education, Feminism, College teachers, Segregation, Underground newspapers
Dates: 1965-08-18, 1969-05-16, 2019-03-18
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Arleen Lawson conducted by Zoë Marshall and Serena Bear on March 18, 2019.

Title: Cheryl Jean Jefferson oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004041
Creator: Vu, Tong
Contributor: Jefferson, Cheryl Jean, 1951-
Topic: Civil rights, African Americans, Peace movements, Energy conservation
Dates: 2021-02-26
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Cheryl Jean Jefferson conducted by Tong Vu on February, 26th 2021. Cheryl Jefferson was born to a military family in Anchorage, Alaska. Her family eventually settled in Brenham, Texas, and she elected to attend Southwest Texas State University in the late 1960s. While in school, she began her detailed career that includes Civil Rights Activism, antiwar activism, television production, and politics. With the Civil Rights movement in its latter stages, and the ongoing Vietnam War, Cheryl found involvement in just about every social movement. She was part of the student Senate at Southwest Texas State, and even met with former president Lyndon B. Johnson a handful of times. Most notably, Cheryl worked with the television network, KLRU, formerly known as KLRN. While Cheryl enjoyed working in all of the previously mentioned fields, she found the most happiness in her later career, where she worked in energy conservation.

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: Dianne Duncan oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-000664
Creator: Lopez, Michelle, Wright, Carson
Contributor: Duncan, Dianne
Topic: Abortion, Agricultural laborers, Civil rights, Underground newspapers, Feminism, Gay liberation movement
Dates: 1966-08, 2019-03-28
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Dianne Duncan conducted by Michelle Lopez and Carson Wright on March 28, 2019. Interview discussing her time at the University of Texas as a student, family background, and activism in Austin and Washington, D.C. along with the gay community and general social life of Austin in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Title: Dianne Duncan oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-000664_0002
Creator: Lopez, Michelle, Wright, Carson
Contributor: Duncan, Dianne
Topic: Abortion, Agricultural laborers, Civil rights, Underground newspapers, Feminism, Gay liberation movement
Dates: 1966-08, 2019-03-28
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Dianne Duncan conducted by Michelle Lopez and Carson Wright on March 28, 2019. Interview discussing her time at the University of Texas as a student, family background, and activism in Austin and Washington, D.C. along with the gay community and general social life of Austin in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Title: Dianne Duncan oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-000664_0001
Creator: Lopez, Michelle, Wright, Carson
Contributor: Duncan, Dianne
Topic: Abortion, Agricultural laborers, Civil rights, Underground newspapers, Feminism, Gay liberation movement
Dates: 1966-08, 2019-03-28
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Dianne Duncan conducted by Michelle Lopez and Carson Wright on March 28, 2019. Interview discussing her time at the University of Texas as a student, family background, and activism in Austin and Washington, D.C. along with the gay community and general social life of Austin in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Title: Glo Dean Baker Gardner oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-000665
Creator: Greenman-Spear, Sara, Petty, Wilson
Contributor: Gardner, Glo Dean Baker
Topic: African Americans--Education, Segregation, Black power, Civil rights, College teachers, Community activists
Dates: 1968-08, 1981-12-31, 2019-03-22
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Glo Dean Baker Gardner conducted by Sara Greenman-Spear and Wilson Petty on March 22, 2019 in her home in Coppell, Texas. While attending the University of Texas from 1968-1973, she co-founded the Afro-American Players, a theatre group which she continues to be a director of. The theatre company has performed not only at UT but throughout Texas and the United States. The group was founded to promote African American culture and better the community through education and cross-cultural understanding. In the interview, Mrs. Baker Gardner also discusses her experience in general as a Black woman at UT during the civil rights era, including her experiences in activism, integration on campus, and the creation of the Black Studies department.

Title: Hortensia Palomares oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004036
Creator: Adams, Suzanne
Contributor: Palomares, Hortensia, 1953-
Topic: Mexican American women, Community activists, Education, Hispanic American women
Dates: 1928-03-22, 2021-02-24, 2021-02-24
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Hortensia Palomares conducted by Suzanne Adams on February 24, 2021. In this interview, Palomares discusses her experiences as a Mexican American in Austin, Texas. Educated in Austin, Hortensia attended the Palm School, University Junior High and Austin High School before starting college at the University of Texas in 1971. At UT, Palomares joined the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO), and majored in ethnic studies with a concentration on Mexican American Studies and Government. After graduating from UT in 1977, Palomares continued to advocate for Chicano rights, joining the East Town Lake Citizens Neighborhood Association (ETLCNA), helping to form the first fully accredited Mexican American university, Juarez Lincoln University, and engaging with the Raza Unida party.

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: María Limón oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-004029
Creator: Ramos, Alicia
Contributor: Limón, María, 1958- (Writer)
Topic: Mexican American women, Civil rights, Gay liberation movement, Lesbian activists, AIDS activists
Dates: 1980-08, 1992-12-31, 2021-02-26
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of María Limón conducted by Alicia Ramos on February 26th, 2021. In the interview, Limón focuses on describing her involvement in the broader Chicano Movement from 1980 to 1983, and her involvement in broader activism from 1985 to around 1991. In particular, Limón discusses her involvement and relationship with the Brown Berets in 1983, during the Anti-KKK Rally in Austin, and the aftermath of her being beaten by the police alongside Paul Hernandez and Adela Mancias. She later goes on to discuss her involvement with the formation of the Austin Latino/a Lesbian Gay Organization, or ALLGO, from 1985 to 1988 and the later response to the HIV/AIDs epidemic. Limón discusses her involvement from 1988 to 1991 in environmental activism with the Foundation for a Compassionate Society and discusses her continued activism around the problem of domestic violence.

Title: Modesta Treviño oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003944
Creator: Simpson, Felicia
Contributor: Treviño, Modesta
Topic: Mexican American women, Hispanic American women
Dates: 1968, 1979, 2017-10-25
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral History of Modesta Trevino conducted by Felicia Simpson on October 25, 2017. Discusses her time as an activist participating in the Texas Farmworker's movement while a student at the University of Texas and beyond. Moves into discussion of Latino/a art exhibitions and organizing as a way to express ideas, identity and discontent

Title: Susan Post oral history
Identifier: camh-dob-003934
Creator: Farmer, Samantha
Contributor: Post, Susan
Topic: Community activists, Feminism, Lesbians
Dates: 1960, 1990, 1943, 2017-11-16
Resource: Austin women activists oral history project records
Description: Oral history of Susan Post conducted by Samantha Farmer on November 16, 2017.

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.

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