University of Texas at El Paso
Biography
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas, United States. The school was founded in 1914 as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy, and a practice mineshaft survives on the mountainous desert campus. Following a reorganization of the University of Texas in 1920, the school was renamed the College of Mines and Metallurgy of the University of Texas. It became Texas Western College of the University of Texas in 1949, and The University of Texas at El Paso in 1967.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Candelario Ruiz, 1978 May 14, 2006 November 15
Recollection of the Mexican Revolution and his opinion on Pancho Villa and Guillermo Baca; his emigration to the United States, the Spanish Flu of 1918, of which his mother died; the Depression.
Oral History Interview with Gregorio Aldana, 1978 June 13, 2006 November 15
Recalls life as a laborer on a hacienda before the Mexican Revolution; discrimination he encounters in Kansas; the Battle of Aguascalientes; Villa, Carranza, and Madero; the Spanish Flu of 1918, the Depression; La toma de Zacatecas.
Oral History Interview with Gregorio Garcia, 1979 September 10, 2006 November 15
Born in Mexico; came from a large family, many of whom died during the Spanish Flu of 1918; the Mexican Revolution and various personalities; came to the United States in 1925 and worked with the Sante Fe Railroads in Oklahoma; has worked in Chicago, New York, Indiana, and Buffalo; worked as a Bracero in 1954; opinions about undocumented workers in the United States and personal observattions about M?xico.
Oral History Interview with Jesús Arras, 2006 November 15, 2006 November 15
Personalities and events of the Mexican Revolution, including Pancho Villa and Francisco I. Madero, the Spanish Flu of 1918. Barber for Pancho Villa.
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