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Gonzalez, Ray A.,. Oral history interview with Ray A. Gonzalez, 1997 [videorecording].

Title: Oral history interview with Ray A. Gonzalez, 1997 [videorecording].

Mr. Gonzalez discusses his activities as a member of Mexican American Democrats (MAD) and its efforts to organize Mexican American voters in the Wichita Falls, Texas area. He talks about the difficulties of motivating Mexican Americans to become activists in the political process and about how the political establishment manipulates Mexican American voters to accomplish their objectives. Mr. Gonzalez relates how he gains community wide recognition by volunteering in the community. He exlains that it is very difficult to establish Mexican American representation in city government and on the schoool board because Mexican Americans are so few in number in the Wichita Falls area and they tend to be scattered throughout the neigborhoods instead of centrally located. He identifies education as the most important issue facing the Mexican American community. He tells about his admission to the public swimming pool in Wichita Falls when he as a youth and how psycholocially damaging to him the experience was. He credits some of those racial discrimination experiences with fueling his interest in political activisim. Mr. Gonzalez elaborates upon his service in the military and his participation in the Vietnam War in which he was injured. He describes his long convalescence from that war injury and the damaging effect the Vietnam War protests had on him emotionally. He conlcudes the interview by explaining his goals, objectives, and activities in establishing the local Mexican American Democrat(MAD)chapter and his hopes for gettting more Mexican American participation in public life leading to achieving political representation.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette (VHS) : col. ; 1/2 in.Transcript : 79 p. ; 28 cm.

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Gary Snyder Papers, 1910-2003;, (1945-2002 bulk)

Title: Gary Snyder Papers, 1910-2003; (1945-2002 bulk)

The Gary Snyder Papers document the personal and professional activities of Gary Snyder (1930- ), poet, essayist, translator, Zen Buddhist, environmentalist, lecturer, and teacher. Snyder is considered one of the most significant environmental writers of the twentieth century and a central figure in environmental activism. He wrote more than twenty books of poetry and prose including his forty-year work and for which he won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The collection spans the years 1910-2003 (1945-2002 bulk) and continues to grow. Drafts as well as final versions of poems and prose pieces are found in the collection along with correspondence, recordings of poetry readings and interviews, subject files, manuscripts and publications by other authors, serials, ephemera, and memorabilia. Mountains and Rivers Without End Turtle Island

ArchivalResource: 270 linear feet;

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